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Author : Lucienne Kroha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 144266505X
In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers.
Author : Lucienne Kroha
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442665064
Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the Romanzo di Ferrara (Romance of Ferrara). In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani’s personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Kroha’s close, intertextual reading of Bassani’s novels and short stories reveals Bassani’s focus on the issue of Jewish masculinity and his profound engagement with the work of Freud, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, whose ideas he appropriated and re-cast to construct the fictional story of his own personal struggle.
Author : Lucienne Kroha
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442646162
In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers.
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805211573
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere--in other religions, political movements, mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself. He also explores the ways in which the Jewish tradition has long been and still remains the Wicked Son in the eyes of the world. Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance that is the hallmark of Mamet's work, The Wicked Son is a powerfully thought-provoking look at one of the most destructive and tenacious forces in contemporary life.
Author : Milton Steinberg
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0876689942
A spirited classic of American Jewish literature, a historical novel about ancient sage-turned-apostate Elisha ben Abuyah in the late first century C.E. At the heart of the tale are questions about faith and the loss of faith and the repression and rebellion of the Jews of Palestine. Elisha is a leading scholar in Palestine, elected to the Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish court in the land. But two tragedies awaken doubt about God in Elisha's mind, and doubt eats away at his faith. Declared a heretic and excommunicated from the Jewish community, he journeys to Antioch in nearby Syria to begin a quest through Greek and Roman culture for some fundamental irrefutable truth. The pace of the narrative picks up as Elisha directly encounters the full force of the ancient Romans' all-consuming culture. Ultimately, Elisha is forced by the power of Rome to choose between loyalty to his people, who are rebelling against the emperor's domination, and loyalty to his own quest for truth.--Publishers Weekly
Author : Jacques Kornberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253112590
"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." -- Bernard Avishai "Excellent... a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." -- Michael Marrus "Other biographers... have illuminated aspects of [Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce the kind of intellectual biography that we have here. Jacques Kornberg has done an admirable job of plumbing the depths of Herzl's mind to try to come to an understanding of just why he became a Zionist and why he was literally consumed with promoting Zionist goals." -- Cithara "With compassion and critical balance, placing his subject well within his Austrian milieu, Kornberg analyzes Herzl's rhetoric, tergiversations, and profound ambivalence over his politics and identity."Â -- Choice "... a masterful display of the sources... " -- American Historical Review "... stimulating, provocative and agreeably iconoclastic... powerful and compelling." -- German History A novel and provocative explanation of Theodor Herzl's founding of Zionism as a way of resolving his personal crisis over his Jewish identity.
Author : Jonathan Freedman,Professor of English Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195131574
Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century. Over his long career he published a dozen books, including classics such as Childhood and Society; Identity, Youth, and Crisis; and Young Man Luther . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1970 for his biography Gandhi's Truth. It was also in 1970, when he retired from Harvard University, that Erikson began to rethink his earlier theories of development. He became increasingly occupied with the conflicts and challenges of adulthood--a shift from his earlier writings o.
Author : Amy K. Milligan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498595803
Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in line both with feminist and queer theory. The text centers a feminist folkloric approach to embodiment while simultaneously recognizing its overlaps with the study of Jewish bodies and symbols. It investigates Jewish embodiment with a keen eye to that which breaks from tradition. Consideration is given to the ways in which bodies intersect with time and space in the synagogue, within religious movements, in secular culture, and in childhood ritual. Representing a unique approach to contemporary Jewish Studies, this book argues that Jewish bodies and the intersections they represent are at the core of understanding the contemporary Jewish experience. Rather than abandoning or dismissing Judaism, many contemporary Jews use their bodies as a canvas, claiming space for themselves, demonstrating a deliberate and calculated navigation of Jewish law, and engaging a traditionally patriarchal symbol set which, in its feminist use, amplifies their voices in a context which might otherwise silence them. Through these actions and choices, contemporary Jews demonstrate a nuanced understanding of their public identities as gendered and sexed bodies and a commitment to working towards increased inclusivity within the larger Jewish and secular communities. In the end, this book is a foray into the world of Jewish bodies, how they can be conceptualized using folkloristics, and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways in which the body can be conceptualized and experienced.
Author : Jacob Katz (Historiker)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:731764118
Author : Jonathan Frankel,Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1301806232
Author : Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040990876
Discusses the subjects antisemitism and the Holocaust in Richler's works. The tension between Jew and Gentile is a constant theme, giving the perspectives of both sides. States Richler's belief that antisemitism is used today by Jews and Gentiles as an instrument for political power. Describes Richler's own experiences of antisemitism, the profound effect of the Holocaust on his consciousness, and the place of Israel in the post-Holocaust world. Points out his parody of antisemitism through role reversal, where the Jew becomes the aggressor. Compares Richler's work to that of other contemporary Canadian Jewish writers.
Author : Bela Vago
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058015853
Author : Albert Memmi
Publisher : New York : Orion Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4517996
In his brilliant and controversial earlier work, Portrait of a Jew, Memmi described the condition of the Jew and what he termed the Jew's unlivable fate. In this profoundly and often painfully honest book, this theme is continued as the author searches for solutions to this centuries-old problem. This is, in the end, a heartening book and one which Albert Memmi justly calls an optimistic work, for in the events of the twentieth century he finds the possibility of a brighter future for generations of Jews to come. But before reaching this conclusion, he carefully examines the possibilities open to the Jew who accepts his condition and the Jew who rejects it by such means as conversion, name-changing, assimilation, mixed marriage. rarely have these matters been discussed with such candor and understanding, and the reader, whether he agrees or disagrees with Mr. Memmi's conclusions, cannot help but profit from this stimulating, provocative study of a complex problem. This is a book that must be read by Jew and non-Jew alike. -- publisher description.
Author : Ruth Fine,Susanne Zepp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110563795
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 : Rebecca Rovit
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609381240
"Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.