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"The Space of Words" - Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs by Jennifer Miller Hoyer
RRP: $56.53$55.19Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a... -
The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Dalia Kandiyoti
RRP: $50.68$42.98Five 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... -
Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon by Alan Mintz
RRP: $130.65$110.68Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day... -
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan
RRP: $70.20$60.43In 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... -
Contemporary Israeli Women's Writing by Risa Domb
RRP: $38.03$29.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037583Author Risa DombFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 652g -
Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry, 1812-1847 by Karen A. Weisman
RRP: $140.40$118.79In Singing in a Foreign Land, Karen A. Weisman examines the uneasy literary inheritance of British cultural and poetic norms by early nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Focusing on a range of subgenres, from elegies to pastorals to psalm... -
Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries by Sheila E. Jelen
RRP: $140.40$119.57Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared... -
How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms by Marc Caplan
RRP: $130.65$111.46In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and... -
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination by Yaron Peleg
RRP: $101.40$86.37Calling into question prevailing notions about Orientalism, Yaron Peleg shows how the paradoxical mixture of exoticism and familiarity with which Jews related to Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped the legacy of Zionism. In Peleg's... -
Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz
$140.34The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then... -
Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature by Jeremy Asher Dauber
RRP: $140.40$116.34Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose,... -
On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt by Aimee Israel-Pelletier
RRP: $50.68$42.98Aimee 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... -
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
RRP: $48.73$42.18As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways... -
In a Maelstrom: The History of Russian-Jewish Prose, 1860-1940 by Zsuzsa Hetenyi
RRP: $142.35$129.71This book presents a concise history of Russian-Jewish literature, with special attention to the prose works. Russian-Jewish literature is discussed in four periods, showing what led to the turning points (1881-82, 1897, 1917). Hetenyi demonstrates why... -
Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern by Neil R. Davison
RRP: $93.58$81.53This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and... -
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures by Nadia Valman
RRP: $97.48$85.61The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this... -
Profane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry by Ruth Kartun-Blum
RRP: $32.18$30.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878200559Author Ruth Kartun-BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. -
To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity by Eric Zakim
RRP: $113.10$96.10Eric Zakim follows the literary and intellectual career of the powerful Zionist slogan "to build and be built" from its conceptual origin in reaction to the Kishinev pogroms of 1903, when it first served as an expression of settlement... -
Jewish Primitivism by Samuel J. Spinner
RRP: $130.65$110.68Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism-the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western... -
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center by Professor Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi
$169.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226787329Author Professor Sidra Dekoven EzrahiFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature by Leonid Livak
RRP: $130.65$111.46This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role... -
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron
RRP: $130.65$111.46Dan Miron-widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures-begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that... -
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes by Bernard Lazare
RRP: $25.33$22.41Bernard Lazare's controversial magnum opus, originally published in France in 1894, asks why the Jews have aroused such hatred for three thousand years. The journalist, though severed from his Jewish upbringing, was fiercely committed to social justice... -
When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature by Vivian Liska
$56.76Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups... -
Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology by Benjamin Harshav
$127.94Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop" poets, sympathizing with Socialist... -
Childe Harold of Dysna by Moyshe Kulbak
RRP: $25.35$21.49A masterpiece from one of Yiddish literature's true virtuosi, Moyshe Kulbak's satiric poem from 1933, Childe Harold of Dysna, appears here for the first time in a complete English translation. At once an exuberant celebration of Yiddish language and a... -
Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination by Norman Finkelstein
RRP: $61.43$58.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878201730Author Norman FinkelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S... -
A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow by Gloria L. Cronin
RRP: $66.20$54.58The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work analyzes Bellow's oeuvre from a feminist perspective. It incorporates the insights of French feminist... -
Modern Hebrew Fiction by Gershon Shaked 9781592642243
RRP: $23.38$14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592642243Author Gershon ShakedFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd -
Sound an Alarm! Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets and Testing the Righteous: Two-volume set Joseph Perl 9780878207022
RRP: $165.75$140.89Revealer of Secrets is a portrayal—both realistic and satirical—of Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth century. It reflects the struggle that raged between the Haskalah and Hasidism as the Jewish people stood on... -
War Lives: Revenge, Grief, and Conflict in Israeli Fiction Nitza Ben-Dov 9780815637981
RRP: $66.20$56.28Since the nation’s founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ... -
Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media Brahim El Guabli 9780271097558
RRP: $163.70$139.15This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years, this collection posits loss as a new...