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Booking passage : exile and homecoming in the modern Jewish imagination
- Title
- Booking passage : exile and homecoming in the modern Jewish imagination / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.
- Author
- Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 358 p. : facsim.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contraversions ; 12
- The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- Alternative Title
- Exile and homecoming in the modern Jewish imagination
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-345) and index.
- Contents
- The poetics of pilgrimage: Yehuda Halevi and the uncompleted journey -- Lost in space: S.Y. Aramovitsh and the skeptical voyage -- In the heart of the seas: S.Y. Agnon and the epic of return -- By train, by ship, by subway: Sholem Aleichem and the American voyage of self-invention -- Writing poetry after Auschwitz: Paul Celan as the last barbarian -- Reclaiming a plot in Radautz: Dan Pagis and the prosaics of memory -- Between Bukovina and Jerusalem: Aharon Appelfeld and pilgrimage to the ruined shrine -- (Re)imagining Europe: the anachronistic tales of I.B. Singer -- The grapes of Roth: diasporism from Portnoy to Snylock -- Conclusion: the imagination of return and the return of imagination.
- Call Number
- *PAT 00-1797
- ISBN
- 0520206452 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99014018
- OCLC
- 40776782
- Author
- Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven.
- Title
- Booking passage : exile and homecoming in the modern Jewish imagination / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Series
- Contraversions ; 12The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-345) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PAT 00-1797