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Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature, Artscroll, and the Construction of Ultra-Orthodox Identity by Yoel Finkelman 9781936235377
RRP: $152.08$145.47In every Haredi [ultra-Orthodox] neighbourhood today, bookstores overflow with an expansive variety of popular titles written by and for Haredi Jews. "Strictly Kosher Reading" offers a close reading of contemporary Haredi fiction, self-help,... -
Mysticism in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature by Hamutal Bar-Yosef 9781936235018
RRP: $152.08$146.25Challenging the notion that Jewish mysticism ceased to exist in the Hassidic enclaves of early nineteenth century Europe, Hamutal Bar-Yosef delves into the mystical elements of 20th century Israeli literature. Exploring themes such as unity, death, and... -
With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature by Danielle Gurevitch 9781936235834
RRP: $179.38$178.68Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel's origin is in a utopian novel,... -
Hebrew Classics: A Journey Through Israel's Timeless Fiction and Poetry by Dvir Abramovich 9781936235940
RRP: $152.08$145.47In this book, Dvir Abramovich brings together a batch of timeless classical Hebrew novels, short stories, and poems, and furnishes readers with commentaries and critical readings of each landmark work. The selection of seminal texts include masterpieces... -
The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations: A Bilingual Edition and Commentary by Lily Kahn 9781911307983
RRP: $48.75$43.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911307983Author Lily KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 790g -
Five Selves by Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein 9781909374799
RRP: $17.53$14.55A 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... -
Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide by Aubrey Glazer 9781618113757
RRP: $40.93$39.27Whether extroversive, introversive or some further hybrid, the process of the soul touching the fullness of its divine origins is itself undergoing transformation in the contemporary twenty-first century cultural matrices of Israel. Touching but not... -
Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide by Aubrey Glazer 9781618111661
RRP: $152.08$146.25Whether extroversive, introversive or some further hybrid, the process of the soul touching the fullness of its divine origins is itself undergoing transformation in the contemporary twenty-first century cultural matrices of Israel. Touching but not... -
The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Dalia Kandiyoti 9781503612297
RRP: $193.05$167.97Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This... -
Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews by Omri Asscher 9781503610057
RRP: $210.60$182.13American 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... -
Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing by Sunny S. Yudkoff 9781503605152
RRP: $120.90$104.44At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary reflection... -
Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices by Amy K., Milligan 9781498595797
RRP: $165.75$152.30Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in... -
Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film by Aaron Tillman 9781498565028
RRP: $165.75$145.29Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in... -
Jewish Literary Cultures: Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods by David Stern 9780271084848
RRP: $74.00$65.87In 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... -
Beer Sheva' by Beer and Bella Perlhefter: Edition of a Seventeenth Century Yiddish Encyclopedia by Nathanael Riemer 9783447063982
RRP: $214.50$209.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447063982Author Nathanael RiemerFormat HardbackPage Count 581Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz -
Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917-1948 by Daniela Mantovan 9783825360634
RRP: $64.35$55.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360634Author Daniela MantovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 308g -
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan 9780253051981
RRP: $154.05$134.76In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid... -
Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context by Golan Y. Moskowitz 9781503613812
RRP: $210.60$182.13Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and... -
Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture by Ruth Tsoffar 9780367256548
RRP: $263.25$228.70In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives,... -
Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature by Stephen Katz 9780292723566
RRP: $54.58$47.07Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is... -
An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms by Jordan D. Finkin 9780271066417
RRP: $136.40$117.66In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how... -
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky 9780253011992
RRP: $113.10$97.83At 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... -
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman 9780226580920
RRP: $161.85$154.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226580920Author Jonathan FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Jewish-American Writing Since 1945 by Stephen Wade 9781853312267
RRP: $60.45$55.95Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the... -
Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature: A Diaspora by Dario Miccoli 9781138233836
RRP: $263.25$228.70In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African... -
Modern Orthodoxies: Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century by Lisa Mulman 9781138107328
RRP: $85.78$74.96This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman,... -
New Women's Writing from Israel by Risa Domb 9780853033073
RRP: $107.25$80.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033073Author Risa DombFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish by Jeffrey Sacks 9780823264957
RRP: $54.58$47.07In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the... -
Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish by Jeffrey Sacks 9780823264940
RRP: $136.50$118.38In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the... -
The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon 9780804788717
RRP: $154.05$133.98S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in... -
Elie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling by Rosemary Horowitz 9780786428694
RRP: $42.88$35.04Elie Wiesel is a rare master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. From his landmark memoir ""Night"" to his numerous retellings of Hasidic legends, Wiesel's literature emphasizes storytelling, and he... -
Philip Roth by David Brauner 9780719074240
RRP: $156.00$110.55This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible,... -
The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations: A Bilingual Edition and Commentary by Lily Kahn 9781911307990
RRP: $87.75$78.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911307990Author Lily KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1015g -
Nexus 6: Essays in German Jewish Studies by Professor William C Donahue 9781640141469
RRP: $156.00$149.39Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann, among other contributions. Nexus is the official... -
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center by Professor Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi 9780226787466
RRP: $54.60$53.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226787466Author Professor Sidra Dekoven EzrahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place by Katja Garloff 9780253063717
RRP: $105.30$91.24In 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... -
What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine by Yael Chaver
$56.04As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This enlightening volume reveals... -
Yiddish and the Field of Translation: Agents, Strategies, Concepts and Discourses Across Time and Space. in Cooperation with Marianne Windsperger by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
RRP: $140.38$113.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205210283Author Monika Adamczyk-GarbowskaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 154g -
The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu
RRP: $75.95$54.00Questfor Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by RaresPiloiu fills animportant gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction forthe first time in the context of a generational interest in religious... -
Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction by Aaron Kreuter
RRP: $60.43$48.52Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral...