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Un libro scritto in rete, nei minimi messaggi di internet, come un campione del grande poeta ebreo, Mois Benarroch, che mostra che è possibile fare un'altra poesia. In questo caso, è quello che scor……続きを見る

Winner, 2024 Jewish Music Special Interest Group Prize Shortlist, 2025 Religion and the Arts Book Award, given by the American Academy of Religion A compelling look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox an……続きを見る

The friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank was one of the most emotionally intense, racially complicated, and aesthetically significant relationships in the history of American literary modernism……続きを見る

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk**, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.** The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic so……続きを見る

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetr……続きを見る

An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogrom……続きを見る

Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sori……続きを見る

In "Chapters on Jewish Literature," Israel Abrahams offers a profound exploration of the rich tapestry of Jewish literary heritage, tracing its evolution from ancient texts to modern expressions. Th……続きを見る

في هذا الكتاب، يقدم إسماعيل مظهر دراسة نقدية تحليلية أدبية لأعمال عدد من كبار الكتاب والأدباء في عصره، سواء كانوا عربًا أو مستشرقين. يبدأ بنقد كتاب "الله" لعباس محمود العقاد، حيث يستند في نقده إلى أ……続きを見る

Diese einzigartige Sammlung enthält einige der größten Klassiker der Weltliteratur, die einflussreichsten und wichtigsten Werke von Schriftstellern, Dichtern und Philosophen jüdischer Abstammung: Ei……続きを見る

Diese Ausgabe würdigt das Erbe der jüdischen Künstler und Denker. Die Sammlung enthält einige der größten Klassiker der Weltliteratur, die einflussreichsten und wichtigsten Werke von Schriftstellern……続きを見る

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism……続きを見る

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for I……続きを見る

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks. National Jewish Book Award Finalist: The Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's Studies! Bridging literary studies and cultural ……続きを見る

How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937. Making use of letters found in the Uri Zvi ……続きを見る

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936–1983) to dance. "Dancing" addresses art-making parallels and their personal and ……続きを見る

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. Thi……続きを見る

Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpec……続きを見る

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whomーAmerican Gary Shte……続きを見る

Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from……続きを見る

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric." The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the……続きを見る

In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning aw……続きを見る

Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experie……続きを見る

Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early……続きを見る

The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectu……続きを見る

A critical evaluation of Philip Rothーthe first of its kindーthat takes on the man, the myth, and the work. Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Colu……続きを見る

**“A frank love letter to modern Jewish life.” ー MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New Yorker An intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of th……続きを見る

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior L……続きを見る

This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last tw……続きを見る