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Modern Jewish literatures intersections and boundaries

Title
Modern Jewish literatures [electronic resource] : intersections and boundaries / edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Jelen, Sheila E.
  • Kramer, Michael P., 1952-
  • Lerner, L. Scott.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 360 p.)
Series Statement
Jewish culture and contexts
Uniform Title
Modern Jewish literatures (Online)
Subject
  • Jewish literature > History and criticism
  • Hebrew literature > History and criticism
  • Yiddish literature > History and criticism
  • Jews > Identity
  • Judaism and literature
  • Judaism in literature
  • Jews in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Preface / David B. Ruderman -- Introduction: intersections and boundaries in modern Jewish literary study / Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner -- Literary culture and Jewish space around 1800: the Berlin salons revisited / Liliane Weissberg -- Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem lost and Jerusalem regained / L. Scott Lerner -- The merchant at the threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the poetics of apostasy / Amelia Glaser -- Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Ĺévy between Ladino and French: reconstructing a writer's social identity / Olga Borovaya -- I. L. Peretz's "Between two mountains": neo-Hasidism and Jewish literary modernity / Nicham Ross -- Neither here nor there: the critique of ideological progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke stories / Marc Caplan -- Brenner: between Hebrew and Yiddish / Anita Shapira -- Eisig Silberschlag and the persistence of the erotic in American Hebrew poetry / Alan Mintz -- The art of sex in Yiddish poems: Celia Dropkin and her contemporaries / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Ethnopoetics in the works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: gender, popular ethnography, and the literary face of Jewish Eastern Europe / Sheila E. Jelen -- Eternal Jews and dead dogs: the diasporic other in Natan Alterman's The seventh column / Gideon Nevo -- Inserted notes: David Boder's DP interview project and the languages of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- Unpacking my father's bookstore / Laurence Roth -- The art of assimilation: ironies, ambiguities, aesthetics / Michael P. Kramer -- Hebraism and Yiddishism: paradigms of modern Jewish literary history / Anita Norich.
LCCN
2010022112
OCLC
ssj0000606527
Title
Modern Jewish literatures [electronic resource] : intersections and boundaries / edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Series
Jewish culture and contexts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Jelen, Sheila E.
Kramer, Michael P., 1952-
Lerner, L. Scott.
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