Literary passports : the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / Shachar M. Pinsker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinsker, Shachar.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew fiction--Europe--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew fiction.

Jewish fiction--Europe--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary Passports is the first book to explore Hebrew modernist fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Spatializing the margins : Hebrew modernism and the urban experience

Odessa and Warsaw : a tale of two centers?

Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers

London : a foggy day in Whitechapel

Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city"

Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café

The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe

I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity

In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire

Writing, masculinity and sexual desire

Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman

Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions

In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism

Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism

Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits

Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777247

0804777241

OCLC:

713026382