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Author : Jonathan N. Barron,Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1584650435
A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
Author : Deborah Ager,M. E. Silverman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441183040
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry collects more than 200 poems by over 100 poets to celebrate contemporary writers, born after World War II, who write about Jewish themes. In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish poet. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, included are poems by, among others, Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Ed Hirsch, David Lehman, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Judith Skillman, Jacqueline Osherow, Alan Shapiro, Ira Sadoff, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, Philip Schultz, and Jane Shore.
Author : Maeera Shreiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804734291
Singing in a Strange Land explores how the history and cultural conditions of Jewish poetry and poetic production—from the destruction of the Second Temple and Babylonian exile to medieval Spain, the Nazi Holocaust, the contemporary Gulf War, and the second Palestinian intifada—have shaped "Jewish American poetry"; and, through analyses of important poems by significant Jewish American poets, how they shape Jewish American cultural identity.
Author : Andrew Furman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438403519
CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.
Author : Steven Joel Rubin
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040573639
A collection of "more than two hundred poems by American Jewish poets on Jewish subjects and themes."--Jacket.
Author : Deborah Ager,M. E. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441136022
With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.
Author : Barbara Harshav,Benjamin Harshav
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520368835
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Author : Norman Finkelstein
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780878201747
Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch, and Michael Heller, this volume explores the tensions between religious and secular worldviews in recent Jewish poetry, the often conflicted linguistic and cultural matrix from which this poetry arises, and the complicated ways in which Jewish tradition shapes the sensibilities of not only Jewish, but also non-Jewish, poets. Finkelstein, described as "one of American poetry's indispensible makers" (Lawrence Joseph), whose previous critical work has been called "the exemplary study of the religious aspect of the works of contemporary American poets" (Peter O'Leary), considers large literary and cultural trends while never losing sight of the particular formal powers of individual poems. In Like a Dark Rabbi he offers a passionate argument for the importance of Jewish-American poetry to modern Jewish culture-and to American poetry-as it engages with the contradictions of contemporary life.
Author : Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804751706
This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.
Author : Amelia M. Glaser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674248458
A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples. Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish collective trauma but embracing a global community of the oppressed. The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many national groups. The utopian Jews of Songs in Dark Times effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals, particularly the New York–based Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the Soviet literary journal Royte Velt (Red World). Alongside compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee’s “God’s Black Lamb,” Moyshe Nadir’s “Closer,” and Esther Shumiatsher’s “At the Border of China.” These poets dreamed of a moment when “we” could mean “we workers” rather than “we Jews.” Songs in Dark Times takes on the beauty and difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who sought to heal the world by translating pain.
Author : Norman Finkelstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791490549
Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions—romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist and objectivist on the other—Norman Finkelstein provides a theoretical framework for reading the Jewish-American canon, as well as close readings of well known and less established poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, Harvey Shapiro, Armand Schwerner, Hugh Seidman, and Michael Heller. Not One of Them in Place presents this poetry in a clear and nuanced style, paying equal attention to its historical and its aesthetic dimensions.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439156263
David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The title poem, "Yeshiva Boys," is a work in twelve parts that blends the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book, explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful, provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired collection.
Author : Jenny Asse Chayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1672399823
In this splendid poetry collection, Reading the Infinite, the Mexican Jewish poet Jenny Asse Chayo meditates on the relationships among God, man and the written word. From ever-changing vantage points: this poetry is focused on the acts of reading and writing about the Jewish Bible; God writes; Man reads what God has written. Man writes; and here, God reads what Man has written. The eternal themes of Jewish existence are reconfigured through Jenny Asse Chayo's verse. She ponders the nature of God, faith, light and darkness, the wandering in the wilderness, exile, life in the Diaspora, return and redemption. In some poems, well-known stories from Genesis are reworked and become like Midrashim or biblical interpretations in the style of the Talmudists, but always with a modern twist. This is a book about reading and writing about the divine; the reader, whether religious or not, is drawn in, feeling the need to meditate on or argue with a premise, a line or even the use of an individual word. Reading the Infinite promotes a deeper spiritually among the devout of any religion and even provokes those who usually don't think about these topics. Many poems here should be read as prayers, be they by an individual or in a synagogue service. Some would not be out of place in a church or a mosque.The English translations are by Stephen A. Sadow and J. Kates. The poetry, in the original Spanish.is also included
Author : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393048098
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.