History and Literature New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band / William Cutter, David C. Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, David C., Editor.

Contributor:

Jacobson, David C., editor.

Cutter, William, editor.

Brown University.

Series:

Brown Judaic studies; 334

Language:

English

Hebrew

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 506 p. ) Grayscale Illustration, Tables

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Brown Judaic Studies 2020

Providence : Brown Judaic Studies, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as modern poems, essays, and works of fiction in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.

Contents:

Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters

Part II: S. Y. Agnon

Part III: Diaspora

Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel.

Two Literary Talmudic Readings

Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?

“The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation

Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar

Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh

A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation”

S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor

Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise?

Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”)

Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira

Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom

Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat”

What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death”

Agnon from a Medieval Perspective

“The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella

The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath”

The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica

Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim

Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis

Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew

Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience

Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries

Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success

Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision

Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village”

Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann

A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever

The Kernel

Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget

Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba”

What Learning Is Most Worth?

Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars

Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests”

Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry

Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia”

Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani

Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue

The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.

Credits:

With publication assistance from: Lloyd and Margit Cotzen Hebrew Union College Press Publication Fund.

Notes:

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-946527-62-9

OCLC:

1946527165

Publisher Number:

10.26300/ezkm-py58 DOI