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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930675421Author Paul Virgil McCracken FlesherFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Brown Judaic StudiesPublisher Brown Judaic StudiesWeight(grams) 347g

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...

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541575Author Harriet L MuravFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110618990Author Susanne ZeppFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365080981Author ArcheobooksFormat PaperbackImprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223331216Author Mois BenarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Mois BenarrochPublisher Mois BenarrochWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930675681Author Eliezar SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Brown Judaic StudiesPublisher Brown Judaic StudiesWeight(grams) 487g

This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. Through a comparative analysis of an extensive corpus of writings by renowned Russian and Jewish...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224098Author 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 9781487572310Author Frank NewfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541360Author Alyssa QuintFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 753g

Ruth Kluger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986080326Author Robert JackallFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Newfound PressPublisher Newfound PressWeight(grams) 1043g

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Pairing 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...

From 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 images of...

In 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...

Apologies 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)...

In 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...

Pairing 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...

Pointing 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...

This 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...

New 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...

Exploring the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry, this work features close readings of 50 poems from poets such as Amir Gilboa, T. Carmi and Nathan Yonathan. They are presented in their original...

These essays survey the achievements of Jewish women writers from the Renaissance to the modern era. Raised in Jewish cultures wary of female aspirations, this diverse group often found that a life devoted to literary expression required sacrifices.Book...

Yiddish 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...

In 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...

Once 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...

This 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 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...

In 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...

Highlights 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAsher D. Biemann, University of Virginia, USA; Richard I. Cohen and Sarah E. Wobick-Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Book InformationISBN...

Apologies 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

Highlights 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...

Apologies 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

Despite 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...