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- Studies in Modern Jewish Literature (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series)
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: Jewish Publication Society
summary
This outstanding volume of 26 essays represents a cross-section of the writings of Arnold Band on Jewish literature. Band, a renowned Jewish studies and humanities scholar, writes on such topics as: literature in historic context, interpretations of Hasidic tales and other traditional texts, Zionism, S.Y. Agnon and other important Israeli writers, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the Jewish community.
Scholars and students of Jewish studies and literature -- particularly Jewish literature -- won't want to miss this remarkable collection.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- INTRODUCTION
- Confluent Myths: Two Lives
- pp. 3-20
- LITERATURE IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
- Kafka: The Margins of Assimilation
- pp. 65-83
- INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL TEXTS
- Swallowing Jonah: The Eclipse of Parody
- pp. 87-108
- The Politics of Scripture: The Hasidic Tale
- pp. 109-127
- ISRAEL AND ZIONISM
- The New Diasporism and the Old Diaspora
- pp. 157-166
- MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE
- The Evolving Masks of S. J. Agnon
- pp. 213-225
- Agnon Encounters Freud
- pp. 241-250
- OTHER HEBREW WRITERS
- The Ahad Ha-Am–Berdyczewski Polarity
- pp. 277-287
- ANTI-SEMITISM AND HOLOCAUST
- JEWISH STUDIES AND THE COMMUNITY
- Our “She’ela Nikhbada:” Whose Hebrew Is It?
- pp. 353-368
- Jewish Literature in the University
- pp. 369-387
Additional Information
ISBN
9780827609723
Related ISBN(s)
9780827607620
MARC Record
OCLC
676698377
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No