Jewish Literatures And Cultures

Author : Anita Norich,Yaron Z. Eliav
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jewish literature
ISBN : 9781930675551

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures by Anita Norich,Yaron Z. Eliav Pdf

Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / Anita Norich -- From continuity to contiguity : thoughts on the theory of Jewish literature / Dan Miron -- Beyond influence : toward a new historiographic paradigm / Michael L. Satlow -- Hellenistic Judaism : myth or reality? / Gabriele Boccaccini -- "He was renowned to the ends of the earth" (1 Maccabees 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees / Martha Himmelfarb -- Roman statues, rabbis, and Greco-Roman culture / Yaron Z. Eliav -- The ghetto and Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe : towards a new interpretation / David Ruderman -- Hybrid with what? : the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture : their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman -- Idols of the cave and theater : a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman P. Bland -- "Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran -- Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Brooklyn am Rhein? : the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson -- Diaspora and translation : the migrations of Jewish meaning / Naomi Seidman.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen,Michael P. Kramer,L. Scott Lerner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204360

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Modern Jewish Literatures by Sheila E. Jelen,Michael P. Kramer,L. Scott Lerner Pdf

Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries—between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The literary world described in Modern Jewish Literatures is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.

Author : Olaf Terpitz,Renate Hansen-Kokoruš
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3205212886

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe by Olaf Terpitz,Renate Hansen-Kokoruš Pdf

The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy.Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.

Author : Justin Daniel Cammy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015082711873

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Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon by Justin Daniel Cammy Pdf

Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and a fearless public intellectual on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, her colleagues pay tribute with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.

Author : David Stern
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Hebrew literature
ISBN : 0271084839

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Jewish Literary Cultures by David Stern Pdf

A collection of essays and studies of diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature, using contemporary critical approaches and textual analysis to explore larger ideas and themes in rabbinic Judaism.

Author : Olaf Terpitz,Renate Hansen-Kokoruš
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3205212908

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe by Olaf Terpitz,Renate Hansen-Kokoruš Pdf

Author : Renate Hansen-Kokoruš,Olaf Terpitz
Publisher : Böhlau Wien
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783205212898

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe by Renate Hansen-Kokoruš,Olaf Terpitz Pdf

The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.

Author : David Stern
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Jewish literature
ISBN : 0271067535

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Jewish Literary Cultures by David Stern Pdf

A collection of essays and studies of diverse texts and topics in ancient Jewish literature, using contemporary critical approaches and textual analysis to explore larger ideas and themes in rabbinic Judaism.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226903184

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The Modern Jewish Canon by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon, her compassionate, insightful guide to the finest Jewish literature of the twentieth century. From Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick, Wisse's The Modern Jewish Canon is a book that every student of Jewish literature, and every reader of great fiction, will enjoy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1267965399

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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295805672

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I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

Author : Ruth Fine,Susanne Zepp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110563795

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Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese by Ruth Fine,Susanne Zepp Pdf

This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.

Author : David Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195350243

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The Anthology in Jewish Literature by David Stern Pdf

The anthology is a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature--arguably its oldest literary genre, going back to the Bible itself, and including nearly all the canonical texts of Judaism: the Mishnah, the Talmud, classical midrash, and the prayerbook. In the Middle Ages, the anthology became the primary medium in Jewish culture for recording stories, poems, and interpretations of classical texts. In modernity, the genre is transformed into a decisive instrument for cultural retrieval and re-creation, especially in works of the Zionist project and in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. No less importantly, the anthology has played an indispensable role in the creation of significant fields of research in Jewish studies, including Hebrew poetry, folklore, and popular culture. This volume is the first book to bring together scholarly and critical essays that investigate the anthological character of these works and what might be called the "anthological habit" in Jewish literary culture--the tendency and proclivity for gathering together discrete, sometimes conflicting traditions and stories, and preserving them side by side as though there were no difference, conflict, or ambiguity between them. Indeed, The Anthology in Jewish Literature is the first book to recognize this habit and genre as one of the formative categories in Jewish literature and to investigate its manifold roles. The seventeen essays, each of which focuses on a specific literary work, many of them the great classics of Jewish tradition, consider such questions as: What are the many types of anthologies? How have anthologists, editors, even printers of anthologies been creative shapers of Jewish tradition and culture? What can we learn from their editorial practices? How have politics, gender, and class figured into the making of anthologies? What determinative role has the anthology played in creating the Jewish canon? How has the anthology served, especially in the modern period, to create and recreate Jewish culture. This landmark volume will interest educated laypersons as well as scholars in all areas of Jewish literature and culture, as well as students of world literature and cultural studies.

Author : Adam Kirsch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393608311

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The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature by Adam Kirsch Pdf

An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal). Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval businesswoman Glückel of Hameln, and the Zionist manifestoes of Theodor Herzl. From the Jews of Roman Egypt to the mystical devotees of Hasidism in Eastern Europe, The People and the Books brings the treasures of Jewish literature to life and offers new ways to think about their enduring power and influence.

Author : Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135048556

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures by Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth Pdf

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.