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Mysticism in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature by Hamutal Bar-Yosef 9781936235018
RRP: €92.81€87.74Challenging 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: €109.47€105.89Why 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: €92.81€87.26In 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: €29.75€26.41Apologies 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: €10.70€8.63A 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: €24.98€23.47Whether 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: €92.81€87.74Whether 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: €128.52€109.75Five 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: €138.04€117.26American 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: €79.73€67.54At 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: €96.39€88.67Jewish 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: €96.39€88.67Efforts 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: €45.16€39.45In 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... -
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity by Benjamin Schreier 9780812252576
RRP: €53.55€45.78Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow,... -
Beer Sheva' by Beer and Bella Perlhefter: Edition of a Seventeenth Century Yiddish Encyclopedia by Nathanael Riemer 9783447063982
€133.71Apologies 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: €39.27€35.68Apologies 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: €101.15€86.81In 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: €138.04€117.26Wild 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... -
In Shkheynes Mit Der Gorer Velt / Der Ganzen Welt Benachbart / Neighbors to All the World: Antologye Fun Yidishe Esseyen / Anthologie Jiddischer Essays / An Anthology of Yiddish Essays by Efrat Gal-Ed 9783110782912
RRP: €54.73€37.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110782912Author Efrat Gal-EdFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Dusseldorf University PressPublisher Dusseldorf University PressWeight(grams) 909g -
Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings: Words Significantly Uttered by Dorit Lemberger 9781666917260
RRP: €91.63€82.91Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings: Words Significantly Uttered presents intermediate links between three intellectual domains: the literary works of Amos Oz, American Pragmatism, and object-relations psychoanalysis. The... -
Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone by Maeera Shreiber 9781531501723
€114.97"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... -
Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture by Ruth Tsoffar 9780367256548
RRP: €160.65€139.56In 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: €35.69€32.58Between 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: €83.24€71.80In 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: €74.97€63.59At 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
€94.52Apologies 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 -
Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination: Jewish Cultural Studies, Volume 5 by Marjorie Lehman 9781906764661
RRP: €35.28€32.25National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies, 2017.The 'Jewish mother' figure is a hallmark of Jewish culture, one which appears in the works of rabbis, artists, poets, and activists across time and place. While... -
Jewish-American Writing Since 1945 by Stephen Wade 9781853312267
RRP: €36.89€33.50Jewish 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: €160.65€139.56In 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: €52.35€45.74This 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: €65.45€49.17Apologies 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: €36.89€33.62In 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: €90.44€77.84In 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
€103.07S.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: €26.17€21.38Elie 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... -
Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher 9780691138442
RRP: €35.70€32.59Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the... -
Philip Roth by David Brauner 9780719074240
RRP: €95.20€67.46This 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: €53.55€48.18Apologies 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 -
Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: in The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg & in A Selection of Modern Paintings by Dr Ruth Dorot 9781845196011
€121.39This book draws parallels between literature and the arts, and between drama and painting, in terms of Time and Symbolism, as they appear in the play The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg, and in a group of selected paintings by Marc Chagall, Salvador... -
Ambassadors of Death (HB@PB Price): The Sister Arts, Western Canon & the Silent Lines of a Hebrew Survivor by Shahar Bram 9781845194505
€120.92Tuvia Rubner, winner of Israel Prize for Poetry (2008), is a Hebrew poet who lost his family in the Holocaust. He turned his personal trauma into a broad world view that engages with Western culture, his poetry highlighting correspondences with paintings...