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Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson 9780231123297
RRP: £30.00£23.29Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents... -
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser 9780674248458
RRP: £35.95£28.96A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis
£18.57Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a... -
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition by Ruth Bernuth 9781479828449
RRP: £28.99£24.96How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to... -
The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics by Leora Batnitzky 9783110553949
RRP: £18.00£15.33The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has... -
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity by Sonia Beth Gollance
RRP: £62.00£53.56Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest. The popularity of social dance transcends class,... -
Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter 9780199394753
RRP: £36.99£29.05Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the relationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers... -
The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America by Jonathan Freedman 9780195151992
RRP: £41.49£30.82From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at... -
Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to Its Techniques by Wilfred G. E. Watson 9780567083883
£90.28In spite of debatable issues, such as metre, we now know enough about classical Hebrew poetry to be able to understand how it was composed. This large-scale manual, rich in detail, exegesis and bibliography, provides guidelines for the analysis and... -
The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America by Jonathan Freedman 9780195131574
RRP: £96.00£80.32From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at... -
Rage Is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film by Professor Susan Derwin 9780814252321
£21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252321Author Professor Susan DerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
City Scriptures by Murray Baumgarten 9780674282551
RRP: £54.95£46.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282551Author Murray BaumgartenFormat HardbackPage Count 193Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 458g -
The Controversial Sholem Asch: An Introduction to His Fiction by Ben Siegel 9780879720766
RRP: £16.95£16.55This study is the first critical biography in English of Sholem Asch, who did little in his lifetime to make such a task an easy one. Asch was not a "tidy" writer. He lived in many cities and countries, wrote tirelessly, and kept little record... -
Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature by Naomi B. Sokoloff 9780674341982
RRP: £27.95£20.24In recent years, gender studies and feminist thinking have had a growing influence on the study of world literature. But only noe, in this volume, is a range of studies devoted to the field of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Here international... -
Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter 9780199812639
RRP: £45.99£37.14Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish... -
And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing by Wendy Zierler 9780814331477
RRP: £53.00£47.29Pointing to an early instance in Hebrew literary history, And Rachel Stole the Idols takes its title from a biblical episode in which a daughter seizes control of a paternal spiritual legacy and makes it her own. This episode is the thematic key to Wendy... -
Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner 9780815634232
£74.74At the beginning of the twentieth century, ambitious young writers flocked from Jewish towns and villages to cultural centers like Warsaw, Odessa, and Vilna to seek their fortunes. These writers, typically proficient in both Hebrew and Yiddish, gathered... -
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature by Vered Tohar 9780814347041
RRP: £94.00£86.55This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and as an important channel of leisure reading in premodern Jewish culture. Utilizing a... -
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs 9780814344880
RRP: £86.00£81.38New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of... -
Does David Still Play Before You?: Israeli Poetry and the Bible by David C. Jacobson 9780814326237
RRP: £44.95£38.50Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in their original Hebrew and in English translation, David... -
Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing by Judith R. Baskin 9780814324233
RRP: £25.95£23.21Jewish women writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries lived with a sense of painful connection to a culture that rejected their aspirations. Raised in a Jewish environment wary of female aspirations and in a wider world that was only... -
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture by Lara Rabinovitch 9780814334447
RRP: £36.95£33.62Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and... -
Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification: Essays in Comparative Prosody by Benjamin Harshav 9780300144871
£72.57In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the... -
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua by Yael Halevi-Wise 9780271087863
RRP: £29.95£26.91Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country currently faces in the Middle East. The Retrospective... -
Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and Revelation by Mark H. Gelber 9783110651775
RRP: £23.50£19.14This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological... -
Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings by Robert Pirro 9781683930877
RRP: £36.00£31.81Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi's thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his... -
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman 9781503639263
RRP: £27.99£24.14There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not... -
Engaging the Shoah through the Poetry of Dan Pagis: Memory and Metaphor by Shellie Gordon McCullough 9781498532877
RRP: £75.00£65.90In the field of Holocaust Studies, there has been a great deal written in English about poets such as Paul Celan, but Dan Pagis's body of work remains largely undiscovered. By analyzing the Holocaust poetry of Dan Pagis and correlating it to his... -
Levinas and Literature: New Directions by Michael Fagenblat 9783111088426
RRP: £18.00£13.90The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list... -
Avrom Sutzkever - Still My Word Sings: Poems. Yiddish and English by Heather Valencia 9783110745634
RRP: £30.00£24.01The second volume of the series Yiddish Editions & Research, presents the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010), one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century. The themes of his work span his early childhood in Siberia, youth in Vilna,... -
Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy by Jonathan Branfman 9781479820795
RRP: £23.99£20.84Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars... -
Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others by Asher D. Biemann 9783110777468
RRP: £21.00£17.51Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of... -
The Legacy of Ruth Kl�ger and the End of the Auschwitz Century by Mark H Gelber 9783111518732
RRP: £14.00£12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111518732Author Mark H GelberFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter -
Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930: Struggles for Recognition by Dana Mihailescu 9781498563895
RRP: £109.00£95.17The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America's norms of assimilation,... -
Federman Frenzy: The 'Cult' in Culture, the 'Me' in Memory, the 'He' in History - Encounters with Raymond Federman by Camelia Elias 9788799245642
RRP: £13.00£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788799245642Author Camelia EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Eyecorner PressPublisher Eyecorner PressWeight(grams) 177g -
Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy by Jonathan Branfman 9781479820764
RRP: £74.00£64.45Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars... -
The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Professor Israel Abrahams 9781926842516
RRP: £23.24£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926842516Author Professor Israel AbrahamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams) 249g -
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 by Anson Rabinbach 9780674174153
£32.62The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as on of the leading literary and... -
Our exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's founding story by M. M. Silver 9780814334430
RRP: £34.95£28.97Despite the dramatic circumstances of its founding, Israel did not inspire sustained, impassioned public discussion among Jews and non-Jews in the United States until Leon Uris's popular novel Exodus was released in 1958. Uris's novel popularized the... -
Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone by Debora Cordeiro Rosa 9780739172971
RRP: £92.00£80.53The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish...