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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...

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...