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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555406721Author James C. VanderKamFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Walt 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447123358Author Dariusz DekiertFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 866g

A German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval during the years of Nazi conquest, Hannah Arendt turned to classical literature and drama as she struggled to make sense of the terrible events of her time. Studying fiction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652081766Author E S RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesPublisher Israel Academy of Sciences and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652081551Author The Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesPublisher...

Hebrew has survived as a continuously written literature for nearly 3,000 years. It is the oldest, and in some ways most successful, minority literature. While Hebrew is central to the social history of the Jews, its history also offers a panoramic...

It was twentieth-century Modernism that introduced bilingualism into the literary arena. Used as a means for the contradictory aims of universalizing or individualizing the literary idiom, this practice was clearly part of the revolt against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652080080Author Meir GilonFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesPublisher Israel Academy of Sciences and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540073Author Hazel FrankelFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 567g

After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesuthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature.As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection...

This book of poems commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Classmate of Simone de Beauvoir, acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been...

Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which writers intentionally highlight and perform their...

This is the first academic treatment of the life and work of Henry William Katz (1906-1992) who has been forgotten by scholars and critics for fifty years although his first novel won him the Heinrich-Heine-Prize in exile in 1937. From a combined...

This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabes and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize this enigmatic writing through the lens of the author's manuscripts. Addressed are the main...

Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context examines evidence from Babylonian sources to better understand Ezekiel's vision of the future temple as it appears in chapters 40-48. Tova Ganzel argues that Neo-Babylonian temples provide a meaningful...

The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both...

A Bird Flight: After the death of her father the narrator travels to an academic symposium in Chicago; her host seems fixated on her bereavement as he tries to reach understanding of his own recent loss through her experience.;Earrings: The narrator's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230788942Author Modise TlharesagaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Modise TlharesagaePublisher Modise TlharesagaeWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110600759Author Joachim YeshayaFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 156g

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205212881Author Dr. Tamir KarkasonFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 876gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm...

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish...

This is a history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media. In ""Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination"", author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers...

Investigates why, of all the British Romantic poets, Byron is the most frequently translated into Hebrew and Yiddish and how Jews used translations of Byron's works to help construct a new Jewish identity. Scholars of Byron, Jewish identity, and those...

This title explores the relationship between Judaism, state, and education in France from the establishment of the Jewish Consistory in 1808 until the separation of church and state in 1905.Historians have typically characterized nineteenth-century...

In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a...

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish...

The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or 'SeMaK' for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom...

By focusing on the Jewish textual traditions the book series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts examines both the continuity of a tradition through its transmission of canonical, classical and contemporary texts, as well as the ways that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224104Author William BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612044729Author Aviva ButtFormat PaperbackImprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book Publishing & Rights...

A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is...

How was Abraham Sutzkever, the most famous Yiddish poet to survive the ghettos of Europe, inspired by an invitation to speak in South Africa? How did he transform his travels into a celebration of the creative impulse at a moment when Yiddish literature...

Asher Ginsberg (1856-1927), also known as Ahad Ha'am, was a prominent pre-state Zionist thinker and considered the founder of Cultural Zionism, fighting for what he described as 'a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews.' This 1912 collection of...

Jurek Becker is one of the most important post-war German authors. His first novel, Jacob the Liar, already has the status of a classic of post-1945 European literature about the Holocaust and has been widely translated. This timely book traces the main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771617567Author L�onard RosmarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Mosaic PressPublisher Mosaic Press

By focusing on the Jewish textual traditions the book series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts examines both the continuity of a tradition through its transmission of canonical, classical and contemporary texts, as well as the ways that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930675490Author Bruce ChiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Brown Judaic StudiesPublisher Brown Judaic StudiesWeight(grams) 364g

Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms-from ancient scrolls to...