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- History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band
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- Published by: Brown Judaic Studies
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This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as modern poems, essays, and works of fiction in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- p. I
- Publishers' Preface
- p. VII
- Two Views of Arnold Band
- pp. XIII-XX
- Dor Dor Vedorshav: Of Fathers and Sons
- pp. XXXIII-XXXVI
- PART I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters
- Two Literary Talmudic Readings
- pp. 3-15
- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar
- pp. 41-53
- PART II: S. Y. Agnon
- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise?
- pp. 107-115
- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira
- pp. 125-136
- What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death"
- pp. 161-170
- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective
- pp. 171-185
- PART III: Diaspora
- PART IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel
- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever
- pp. 339-349
- The Kernel
- pp. 351-355
- Rereading Dan Pagis's "Abba"
- pp. 369-377
- What Learning Is Most Worth?
- pp. 379-388
- Publications of Arnold J. Band
- pp. 489-496
- Contributors
- pp. 497-504
- Permissions
- pp. 505-506
Additional Information
ISBN
9781946527165
Related ISBN
9781946527622
MARC Record
OCLC
1946527165
Launched on MUSE
2020-03-05
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
