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Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script 1 - A Critical Edition by Michal Nemeth 9788323332169
RRP: £42.00£38.21The 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: £90.00£78.81Art 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: £58.00£50.17"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 This... -
As the Dust of the Earth – The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine by H Murav 9780253068804
RRP: £35.00£31.14An 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: £20.00£16.52This 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: £114.50£108.58This 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: £77.99£75.00In 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: £21.99£16.66This 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: £77.99£58.15This 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: £77.99£58.15This 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: £84.99£64.04Apologies 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
£82.76Walt 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: £85.00£74.51Motherhood, 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... -
A Red Rose in the Dark: Self-Constitution through the Poetic Language of Zelda, Amichai, Kosman, and Adaf by Dorit Lemberger 9781618114938
RRP: £98.99£94.70How can we characterize the uniqueness of poetic language? How can we describe the evasive enchantment of the paradox that is created by both universal and autobiographical expression? How does ordinary language function aesthetically while motivating... -
Her Glory All Within: Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Women's Fiction by Barbara Landress 9781618111715
RRP: £84.99£81.16Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in... -
Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy by Yoel Finkelman 9781618110022
RRP: £19.99£19.21For centuries, fervently observant Jewish communities have produced thousands of works of Jewish law, thought, and spirituality. But in recent decades, the literature of America's Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] community has taken on brand-new forms: selfhelp... -
Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone by Maeera Shreiber 9781531501730
RRP: £23.99£20.84"what is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations..." (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post-World-War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish... -
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews by Omri Asscher 9781503610934
RRP: £24.99£21.67American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy... -
Between Snow and Desert Heat: Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970 by Rina R. Lapidus 9780878204519
£28.18Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. These influences have been readily acknowledged but have been studied only in an... -
Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: Nation Building and Minority Discourse by Hannan Hever 9780814736449
RRP: £74.00£64.45A people's writings can play a dramatic role in nation building, as the development of modern Hebrew literature powerfully illustrates. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Hebrew writers in Europe and Palestine/Israel have produced texts and... -
Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust by Jessica Lang 9780813589909
RRP: £124.00£107.04There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language... -
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland by Bryan Cheyette 9780803263888
RRP: £32.00£28.61Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland presents a wide range of writers-some at the heart of British culture, others outside the mainstream-who address the issue of Jewish cultural difference in Great Britain and Ireland. Editor Bryan... -
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich 9780674238190
RRP: £34.95£28.19A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian... -
The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet by Yair Mazor 9780299181543
RRP: £17.95£17.10This striking book introduces English-speaking audiences to a full range of poetry by Asher Reich, one of Israel's most celebrated contemporary poets, paired with evocative drawings by renowned Israeli artist Michael Kovner. Yair Mazor provides readers... -
Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples by Susan Handelman 9780295991290
£26.97Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and... -
Jewish Literary Cultures: Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods by David Stern 9780271084831
RRP: £88.95£78.46In this second of three planned volumes of Jewish Literary Cultures, David Stern explores diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature and book history. Stern uses contemporary critical approaches to assess larger themes and... -
Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place by Katja Garloff 9780253063724
RRP: £27.99£24.14In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain... -
The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem by Daniel Weidner 9780253062086
RRP: £32.00£28.21The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study,... -
The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem by Daniel Weidner 9780253062079
RRP: £62.00£53.56The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study,... -
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman 9780253036964
RRP: £32.00£28.21In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being... -
The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz by Jerold C. Frakes 9780253025517
RRP: £50.00£43.41While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres-epic, drama, and lyric-also developed. Jerold Frakes contends that the historical context of the emergence of Yiddish literature is an essential factor in any... -
On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt by Aimee Israel-Pelletier 9780253025296
RRP: £66.00£56.93Aimee Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of... -
Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography by Gabriella Safran 9780253019622
RRP: £27.99£24.54Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of... -
Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography by Gabriella Safran 9780253019585
RRP: £70.00£60.71Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the... -
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin 9780231113748
RRP: £100.00£78.33The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known... -
Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust by Jessica Lang 9780813589916
RRP: £33.00£29.05There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language... -
An Early Self: Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627 by Susanne Zepp 9780804787451
RRP: £62.00£53.56What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's... -
Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s by Hannan Hever 9780804784108
RRP: £62.00£53.56Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic... -
Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler by Abigail Gillman 9780271034096
RRP: £55.95£49.64In Viennese Jewish Modernism, Abigail Gillman challenges the conventional understanding of modernism as simply a break from tradition. Until recently, the study of Jewish modernism has centered on questions of Jewish and non-Jewish identity, generally... -
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will by Sarah J. Pearce 9780253025968
RRP: £50.00£43.41Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and...