Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries

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CONTENTS Preface David B. Ruderman vii Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner 1 Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited Liliane Weissberg 24 Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador’s Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained L. Scott Lerner 44 Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy Amelia Glaser 66 Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer’s Social Identity Olga Borovaya 83 Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz’s ‘‘Between Two Mountains’’: Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity Nicham Ross 104 Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem’s Kasrilevke Stories Marc Caplan 127 vi Contents Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish Anita Shapira 147 Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry Alan Mintz 169 Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries Kathryn Hellerstein 189 Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe Sheila E. Jelen 213 Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman’s The Seventh Column Gideon Nevo 237 Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder’s DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust Alan Rosen 263 Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore Laurence Roth 280 Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics Michael P. Kramer 303 Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History Anita Norich 327 List of Contributors 343 Index 347 ...