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Self as Nation - Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography by Tamar Hess 9781611688795
RRP: $132.60$127.45Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the... -
A Different Land: Critical insight about life in Israel by Rachman Chaim 9781088072516
RRP: $54.58$35.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088072516Author Rachman ChaimFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 481g -
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology by Susan R. Suleiman 9780803293045
RRP: $70.20$52.75Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe. This volume includes work by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz and other... -
Modern Hebrew Literature by Robert Alter 9780874412352
RRP: $42.88$38.42A panorama of Hebrew prose presented in an English translation that makes these masterly works available to a wide audience.Book InformationISBN 9780874412352Author Robert AlterFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher... -
A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity: Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers by Stephen B Shepard 9780989213387
RRP: $29.23$25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989213387Author Stephen B ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Bayberry BooksPublisher Bayberry BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature by Alan Mintz 9780815604242
RRP: $33.05$26.85A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes. In this book Alan Mintz devotes a chapter each to selected catastrophic events and the literary response to them: for... -
Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press by James L. Crouthamel 9780815627111
$38.88With the founding of the New York Herald in 1835, James Gordon Bennett began what was to become the most successful and widely circulated newspaper of mid-nineteenth-century America. He did not invent the cheap popular newspaper, but his innovations, a... -
Jews in American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation by Susanne Klingenstein 9780815605416
RRP: $33.05$27.03This work examines how the philosophy and literature departments of Ivy League colleges in the early 20th century gradually accepted Jewish men, and how this integration transformed the thinking of these Jewish professors, many of whom had been raised in... -
The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea by Sam B. Girgus 9780807896709
RRP: $97.40$90.79Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and... -
Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination by S. Lilian Kremer 9780803278004
$54.17Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma... -
The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide by Alain Finkielkraut 9780803220003
$73.98The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern... -
Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America by Naomi Mandel 9780813925813
RRP: $42.80$34.98In the wake of World War II, the Nazi genocide of European Jews has come to stand for ""the unspeakable,"" posing crucial challenges to the representation of suffering, the articulation of identity, and the practice of ethics in an... -
The Inveterate Dreamer: Essays and Conversations on Jewish Culture by Ilan Stavans 9780803292789
$46.88Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue-from German and Russian to English and Portuguese-does as well. These writers are often at the crossroad between the two... -
Contemporary Jewish Writing in South Africa: An Anthology by Claudia Bathsheba Braude 9780803212701
$117.29With the release of Nelson Mandela, the advent of nonracial democracy, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africans have found themselves grappling with the legacy of apartheid's racial and cultural divisions. Together with Claudia... -
The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The "Jewish Question" From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars (gls, No. 117 by Peter R. Erspamer 9781469614649
RRP: $50.60$41.03Peter Erspamer explores the 'Jewish question' in German literature from Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779 to Sessa's Unser Verkehr in 1815. He analyzes the transition from an enlightened emancipatory literature advocating tolerance in the late... -
Longing: Poems of a Life by Merle Feld 9780881236262
RRP: $33.05$29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881236262Author Merle FeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American... -
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz by Ken Frieden 9780815607601
RRP: $33.05$28.22Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this anthology, the first comprehensive overview of works by the three classic Yiddish authors. They describe Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century and introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's... -
Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America by Alan Mintz 9780815629009
RRP: $33.05$27.46Reflects the rise of literature in modern-day Israel and the problematic reception of literature in America and within the American Jewish community. Israeli literature provides a unique lens for viewing the inner dynamics of this small but critically... -
The Amos Oz Reader by Mr Amos Oz 9780156035668
RRP: $44.75$33.25The Reader draws on Oz's entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them Where the... -
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz by Ken Frieden 9780815632917
RRP: $29.15$24.43Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac... -
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions by S. L. Wisenberg 9780803298668
RRP: $27.28$21.12This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address the question of what it means to be an American Jew... -
Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World by Leah V. Garrett 9780299184445
RRP: $38.90$29.04Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of the most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global stewardship:... -
Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature by Anna Elena Torres 9780300243567
RRP: $76.05$73.38A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish... -
Belonging Too Well: Portraits of Identity in Cynthia Ozick's Fiction by Miriam Sivan 9781438425061
RRP: $49.74$43.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438425061Author Miriam SivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Anshel Levi: An Old Yiddish Midrash to the 'chapters of the Fathers' by Yaacov J Maitlis 9789652080059
$42.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652080059Author Yaacov J MaitlisFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesPublisher Israel Academy of Sciences and... -
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky 9780253012036
RRP: $50.68$42.98At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote business letters, romantic letters, and emotionally intense family letters. But for many Jews... -
Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script 1 - A Critical Edition by Michal Nemeth 9788323332169
RRP: $81.90$74.51The work presents -- as far as is now possible -- the language spoken by Lutsk Karaims in the second half of the 19th and in the first two decades of the 20th centuries. This is attempted by means of editing eleven private letters and five open letters... -
Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel by Joseph Lowin 9781498507066
RRP: $165.75$153.68Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel presents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by eight major Israeli novelists. It deals with a society where drama, lived in reality but also in the mind, is a central moving force... -
Sojourners: The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity by John Borneman 9780803212558
RRP: $122.85$104.21"A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of [German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience. This is not merely lived 'history,' it is 'history' with a living face."-Sander L. Gilman... -
As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine by H Murav 9780253068804
RRP: $78.00$67.70An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of... -
As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine by H Murav 9780253068798
RRP: $157.95$135.74An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of... -
Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature by Gilad Sharvit 9783110992403
RRP: $39.00$33.66This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions... -
Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and Revelation by Mark H. Gelber 9783110336924
RRP: $212.55$211.73This 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... -
Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second Generation Religious Zionist Settlers by David C. Jacobson 9781934843727
RRP: $152.08$143.77In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self... -
Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer's 85th Birthday by Roman Katsman 9781644695272
RRP: $42.88$32.49This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov-poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov... -
Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov: A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer's 85th Birthday by Roman Katsman 9781644695265
RRP: $152.08$113.39This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov-poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov... -
Embodied Differences: The Jew's Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture by Henrietta Mondry 9781644694855
RRP: $152.08$113.39This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew's body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and... -
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought: Twentieth-Century Central Europe and American Migration by Bronislava Volkova 9781644694053
RRP: $165.73$124.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644694053Author Bronislava VolkovaFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat 9781609389079
RRP: $154.05$125.74Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry, especially for poets whose parents, and often they... -
Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings by Robert Pirro 9781683930853
RRP: $157.95$145.29Motherhood, 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...