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The Writer in the Jewish community : an Israeli-North American dialogue / edited by Richard Siegel and Tamar Sofer.
- Title
- The Writer in the Jewish community : an Israeli-North American dialogue / edited by Richard Siegel and Tamar Sofer.
- Publication
- Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1993.
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- Description
- 155 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Writer in the Jewish Community presents edited selections from the conference of the same name held in October 1988 at the University of California-Berkeley and Stanford University. Also included in the volume is a foreword by cochair Eli Shaltiel (publisher of Am Oved in Israel) and an afterword by Nessa Rapoport. The work is divided into three sections: "The Jew as Writer/The Writer as Jew," "Jewish Writing in Context," and "Breaking the Language Barrier: Literary Dialogues between Israel and the Diaspora.""--BOOK JACKET. "What defines the Jewish writer, and how different is an American Jewish writer from an Israeli writer? Jewish writers have always struggled with where they stand as individuals, and where Jews stand as a people with a unique history. Whatever language Jewish writers choose to write in, a common cultural past unites them: Jewish survival, the Holocaust, Israel, nationality, and Jewish traditions.^
- Howe and Solotaroff discussed the crisis in subject matter for American writers who are Jewish. And Cynthia Ozick and Nessa Rapoport suggested applying the literary imagination eastward - toward Israel and traditional Jewish-written sources. In general, the conference members confronted, probed, and argued about the role of the Jewish writer, the future of the American Jewish novel, Jewish tradition and renewal, Jewish survival, Israel, and the Diaspora. Their passionate and eloquent expressions are here recorded."--BOOK JACKET.
- These issues of art and identity were addressed by more than thirty of the most acclaimed Jewish poets, critics, novelists, and scholars from Israel and North America, gathered in the Bay Area for the largest modern Jewish writers' conference of its kind."--BOOK JACKET. "In a series of lectures and panel discussions, renowned American writers Cynthia Ozick (The Messiah of Stockholm, The Pagan Rabbi), Max Apple (Free Agents), Rosellen Brown (Civil Wars), and Irving Howe (World of Our Fathers) shared ideas with Israeli writers Amos Oz (My Michael, The Black Box), Hanoch Bartov (The Brigade), and Hillel Halkin. Also exchanging views were Ted Solotaroff, Nessa Rapoport, Harvey Shapiro, David Scheutz, Meir Shalev, Alan Mintz, Meir Wieseltier, Ruth Almog, and Chana Bloch. Halkin talked about the crises faced by the masters - such as Bialik and Brenner - who chose to write in Hebrew, initiating its renaissance.^
- Series Statement
- Sara F. Yoseloff memorial publications in Judaism and Jewish affairs
- Uniform Title
- Sara F. Yoseloff memorial publications in Judaism and Jewish affairs.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I write out of an uncreated identity / Harvey Shapiro -- The storyteller as a Jew / David Schuetz -- By the book / Hanoch Bartov -- The story of creation / Meir Shalev -- Text, language, and the hope of redemption / Nessa Rapoport -- Squeezing history into a teacup / Max Apple -- Of polished mirrors / Cynthia Ozick -- Marginality revisited / Ted Solotaroff -- Response to Ted Solotaroff : the end of marginality in Jewish literature / Irving Howe -- Tradition and renewal / Alan Mintz -- What's new in American Jewish writing / Rosellen Brown -- Polemos and polemics / Ruth Almog -- Six forgotten pioneers of Hebrew literature / Hillel Halkin -- On the predominance of poetry in modern Hebrew literature / Meir Wieseltier -- Response to Wieseltier / Amos Oz -- Imagining the other : 1 / Amos Oz -- Imagining the other : 2 / Cynthia Ozick -- The politics of translation : Amichai and Ravikovitch in English / Chana Bloch -- On reading American Jewish writers / Hanoch Bartov -- Afterword : the Jewish writer unmasked / Nessa Rapoport.
- ISBN
- 0838634591
- LCCN
- ^^^91058951^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library