The Golem In Jewish American Literature

Author : Nicola Morris
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820463841

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The Golem in Jewish American Literature by Nicola Morris Pdf

The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon. Nicola Morris sees this clay humanoid, created in Jewish legend for practical and spiritual purposes, as a metaphor for power and powerlessness and for the complexities and responsibilities surrounding the act of creation. Further, she employs the golem figure as a device to examine the problematic Holocaust representation in the second generation, the uncertain boundaries between fiction and historiography, the ethics of intertextuality and the writer's responsibility to literary, folkloric and oral sources. Morris concludes with an impassioned plea for the responsible uses of power, technology and language.

Author : Elizabeth R. Baer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814336274

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The Golem Redux by Elizabeth R. Baer Pdf

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.

Author : Maya Barzilai
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479889655

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Golem by Maya Barzilai Pdf

Introduction: The Golem condition -- 1. The face of destruction: Paul Wegener's World War I Golem films -- 2. The Golem cult of 1921 New York: between redemption and expulsion -- 3. Our enemies, ourselves: Israel's monsters of 1948 -- 4. Supergolem: revenge after the Holocaust -- 5. Pacifist computers and Jewish cyborgs: fighting for the future

Author : Roberta Rosenberg,Rachel Rubinstein
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294461

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Teaching Jewish American Literature by Roberta Rosenberg,Rachel Rubinstein Pdf

A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States. This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege. Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

Author : Gloria L. Cronin,Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140612

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Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature by Gloria L. Cronin,Alan L. Berger Pdf

Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer Pdf

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.

Author : Cathy S. Gelbin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472117598

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The Golem Returns by Cathy S. Gelbin Pdf

Exploring the role of the golem in the formation of modern Jewish culture

Author : Joost Krijnen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004316072

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Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature by Joost Krijnen Pdf

This book is concerned with the “impious” Holocaust fictions of four contemporary Jewish American novelists. It argues that their work should not be seen as insensitive, but rather as explorations of various forms of renewal.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426282

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The New Jewish American Literary Studies by Victoria Aarons Pdf

Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.

Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313190

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The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick Pdf

With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review

Author : Carole Kessner
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557535894

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Studies in American Jewish Literature in Honor of Sarah Blacher Cohen by Carole Kessner Pdf

Scholar, teacher, playwright, and editor, Sarah Blacher Cohen was one of the earliest champions of the study of American Jewish literature, a field of academic study that has been in existence for barely thirty-five years. Over the years until her premature death in 2008, she contributed to the discipline in a profusion of genres, from scholarly to popular, from essay to drama, writing or editing seven books of her own. She also wrote and produced several plays with her longtime collaborator, Joanne B. Koch. This special volume (29) of the annual, Studies in American Jewish Literature (ISSN 0271-9274), the journal edited by Daniel Walden, contains a range of tributes from her many friends and colleagues.

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1563 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440853593

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] by Linda De Roche Pdf

This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.

Author : Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Golem
ISBN : UCAL:B3627093

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The Golem Legend by Byron L. Sherwin Pdf

Author : Helene Wecker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007527151

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The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker Pdf

‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. ‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian

Author : James Sturm
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465305

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The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm Pdf

A new edition of the classic tale of a barnstorming Jewish baseball team during the Great Depression Before penning his acclaimed graphic novel Market Day and founding the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm proved his worth as a master cartoonist with the eloquent graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing, one of the first breakout graphic novel hits of the twenty-first century. Sturm’s fascination with the invisible America has been the crux of his comics work, exploring the rarely-told or oft-forgotten bits of history that define a country. By reuniting America’s greatest pastime with its hidden history, the graphic novel tells the story of the Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team of the depression era. Led by its manager and third baseman, the nomadic team travels from small town to small town providing the thrill of the sport while playing up their religious exoticism as a curio for people to gawk at, heckle, and taunt. When the team’s fortunes fall, the players are presented a plan to get people in the stands. But by placing their fortunes in the hands of a promoter, the Stars of David find themselves fanning the flames of ethnic tensions. Sturm’s nuanced composition is on full display as he deftly builds the climax of the game against the rising anti-semitic fervor of the crowd. Baseball, small towns, racial tensions, and the desperate grasp for the American Dream: The Golem’s Mighty Swing is a classic American novel.