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Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levinas's contentio……続きを見る

The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed figures of a……続きを見る

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and mu……続きを見る

Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the domi……続きを見る

The Hasidic leader R. Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) has held a place in the Jewish popular imagination for more than two centuries. Some see him as the (self-proclaimed) Messiah, others as the fore……続きを見る

Jewish American immigrants and their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading directly to professional success. In Col……続きを見る

Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an ind……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary Encyclopedia Winner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps Worldwide Jewish American Comm……続きを見る

Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational ……続きを見る

For many years, the historical-critical quest for a reconstruction of the origin(s) and development of the Pentateuch or Hexateuch has been dominated by the documentary hypothesis, the heuristic pow……続きを見る

Born in 1920 on the edge of Tunis’s Jewish quarter, the French-Jewish-Tunisian sociologist, philosopher, and novelist Albert Memmi has been a central figure in colonial and postcolonial studies. Oft……続きを見る

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred ……続きを見る

Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewi……続きを見る

This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to……続きを見る

Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known ……続きを見る

Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country c……続きを見る

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul……続きを見る

Nei primi anni del Novecento cominciò a circolare - dapprima in Russia, poi nell'Europa occidentale e negli Stati Uniti - un libro dal titolo apparentemente neutro, I Protocolli dei Savi Anziani di ……続きを見る

This book traces the theme of justice throughout the narrative of Exodus in order to explicate how yhwh’s reclamation of Israel for service-worship reveals a distinct theological ethic of justice gr……続きを見る

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement ch……続きを見る

The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writersーSarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano, George Perec, Henri Raczymow, and Irene……続きを見る

Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can at……続きを見る

L'unico vero interprete del pensiero politico e religioso di Friedrich Nietzsche nel primo Novecento è uno sconosciuto medico ebreo tedesco, responsabile della prima edizione inglese delle opere del……続きを見る

如果你也追夢追到懷疑人生，不妨在這本莎娣‧史密斯中尋求療癒ー ー ‧天才作家莎娣‧史密斯繼《白牙》後最令人矚目的作品 ‧2003年《猶太季刊》文學獎得主 ‧2007年誠品書店四月選書 誰的簽名是你想懸掛牆上、時刻仰望……続きを見る

Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tradition. While he is well ……続きを見る

Abbiamo assemblato questo piccolo libretto di storie ebraiche in quanto questo soggetto è pressoche sconosciuto nel mondo delle Fate e, pur essendo le storie soltanto due, sono sufficienti a fare ri……続きを見る

New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbe……続きを見る

The untold life story of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor, highlighting her dramatic influence on American children’s literature This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904–……続きを見る

First book about the distinguished Jewish-Russian writer, David Shrayer-Petrov Examines many aspects of Jewish, Soviet, and exilic culture and history Includes significant contributions by leading ……続きを見る

The untold life story of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor, highlighting her dramatic influence on American children’s literature This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904–……続きを見る