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What is Jewish literature? /

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0827605137

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0827605382

(Number (ISBN

9780827605138

(Number (ISBN

9780827605381

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b720515

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What is Jewish literature? /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited with an introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher.

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1st ed.

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Philadelphia :

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Jewish Publication Society,

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1994.

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x, 271 pages ;

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23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.

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Defining the indefinable : What is Jewish literature? / H. Wirth-Nesher -- On Jewish storytelling / S. Bellow -- America : toward Yavneh / C. Ozick -- The question of American Jewish poetry / J. Hollander -- Jewish dreams and nightmares / R. Alter -- One literature in two languages / Baal-Makhshoves -- Notes on Hebrew literature / B. Kurzweil -- Israeli or Jewish literature? / Y. Ratosh -- Modern Hebrew literature : Zionist perspectives and Israeli realities / D. Miron -- The story's the thing / D.G. Roskies -- Two Jews talking : a view of modern Yiddish literature / R.R. Wisse -- The semiotics of Yiddish communication / B. Harshav -- Shadows of identity : a comparative study of German Jewish and American Jewish literature / G. Shaked -- Lost voices : Jewish authors in modern Arabic literature / S. Somekh -- The example of Isaac Babel / S. Markish -- From Newark to Prague : Roth's place in the American Jewish literary tradition / H. Wirth-Nesher.

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Is tradition the yardstick? Do we then classify Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet as a Jewish novel ... as Holocaust literature ... as American fiction? What Is Jewish Literature? debates all these possibilities. It is a landmark collection that encourages the reader to participate in the quest for answers that defy simple responses. The contributors reflect the multilingual and multicultural nature of any discussion of Jewish literature. Their voices range from polemical to speculative, from scientific to lyrical. What Is Jewish Literature? is an enduring contribution to the literary resource for the scholar, the teacher, and the student and for any individual who strives to appreciate, evaluate, and understand the varied riches of Jewish writing.

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What Is Jewish Literature? is a richly thoughtful analysis and comprehensive overview of what defines Jewish literature. It is an international collection, featuring authors and scholars who write in different languages from different literary, spiritual, and personal perspectives. The book explores long-standing questions: What are the criteria for identifying Jewish literature? Are they language, religious affiliation of the author, religious sensibility, a distinctive Jewish imagination, or literary tradition? If the writer is the criterion, do Sholem Aleichem and Nathanael West really inhabit a shared universe? Is a text by S.Y. Agnon part of the same literary tradition as a play by Arthur Miller? Is Yiddish or Hebrew or Ladino the defining element? If so, where do we place Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Elie Weisel, Saul Bellow, Nellie Sachs?

Title

What is Jewish literature?

American literature-- Jewish authors-- History and criticism.

Israeli literature-- History and criticism.

Jewish literature-- History and criticism.

Jews-- Identity.

Jews-- Intellectual life.

Judaism and literature.

Literature-- History and criticism.

Juifs-- Identité

Juifs-- Vie intellectuelle.

Littérature américaine-- Auteurs juifs-- Histoire et critique.

Littérature israélienne-- Histoire et critique.

Littérature juive-- Histoire et critique.

17.91 literature from and for special groups.

American literature-- Jewish authors.

Forschung

Israeli literature-- History and criticism.

Israeli literature.

Jewish literature-- History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jews-- Identity.

Jews-- Intellectual life.

Joden.

Judaism and literature.

Jüdische Literatur

Letterkunde.

Literatura hebraica.

Yiddish literature-- History and criticism.

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Wirth-Nesher, Hana,1948-

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20201208121611.0

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