Research Catalog

Title

American Hebraist : essays on Agnon and modern Jewish literature / by Alan Mintz ; edited by Beverly Bailis and David Stern.

Author

Mintz, Alan L.

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bailis, Beverly, 1971-
• Stern, David, 1949-

Description

x, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by David Stern and an epilogue by Beverly Bailis"--

Series Statement

Dimyonot : Jews and the cultural imagination ; volume 15

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 15.

Alternative Title

• Essays.
• Essays on Agnon and modern Jewish literature

Subject

• Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970 > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970
• Jewish literature > History and criticism
• Hebrew literature, Modern > History and criticism
• Israeli literature > History and criticism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Hebrew literature, Modern
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
• Israeli literature
• Jewish literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

American Hebraist : an introduction / David Stern -- Agnon's childhood -- Agnon in Jaffa : the myth of the artist as a young man -- Agnon without end -- In the seas of youth -- On "The sense of smell" by S.Y. Agnon -- Reading Haḥazanim -- Writing about ourselves : Jewish autobiography, modern and premodern -- Ahad Ha-am and the essay : the vicissitudes of reason -- Sefer haʼaggadah : triumph or tragedy? -- Israeli literature in the minds of American readers -- Haim Gouri at 90 -- Viva voce : vicissitudes of the spoken word in Hebrew literature -- Knocking on heaven's gate : Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon; arguing the modern Jewish canon -- Modern Hebrew literature and Jewish theology : repositioning the question -- Hebrew in America : a memoir -- Epilogue : Packing up an office : the work of mourning and the creation of an archive / Beverly Bailis.

Call Number

JFE 22-4847

ISBN

• 9780271092386
• 0271092386

LCCN

2022019035

OCLC

1301899604

Author

Mintz, Alan L., author.

Title

American Hebraist : essays on Agnon and modern Jewish literature / by Alan Mintz ; edited by Beverly Bailis and David Stern.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dimyonot : Jews and the cultural imagination ; volume 15

Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 15.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bailis, Beverly, 1971- editor.

Stern, David, 1949- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4847