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Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of c……続きを見る

What has to happen for an old story to become fresh and engaging again? One example of a myth that has been retold and modified is the story of creation and Fall of Man, which appears in the first t……続きを見る

In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Je……続きを見る

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the fa……続きを見る

“Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” ー Minneapolis Star ……続きを見る

The Pulitzer Prize winning author -- “an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) -- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical……続きを見る

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the fa……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de Le Journal d'Anne Frank avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. En 1942, alors que la répression se fait de plus en plus forte, Otto Frank, le père ……続きを見る

It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of ……続きを見る

This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, gl……続きを見る

Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how……続きを見る

For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the ……続きを見る

The Book of Delight and Other Papers by one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation, Israel Abrahams.Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Jud……続きを見る

Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifia……続きを見る

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of th……続きを見る

In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrewーthe language of the Jewish religious and intellectual traditionーand Yiddishーthe East European Jewish vernacularーwere "a match m……続きを見る

Reuven Ben-Yosef (1937–2001) was born Robert Eliot Reiss to an assimilated Jewish family in New York. He switched from writing English poetry to Hebrew poetry after his immigration to Israel in 1959……続きを見る

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as……続きを見る

Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to v……続きを見る

An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its hi……続きを見る

In the field of Holocaust Studies, there has been a great deal written in English about poets such as Paul Celan, but Dan Pagis’s body of work remains largely undiscovered. By analyzing the Holocaus……続きを見る

A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era of the twentieth century. Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud i……続きを見る

Jézus ​születésének történetét jól ismerjük. Csakúgy, mint bölcs tanításait, dicső cselekedeteit és isteni önfeláldozását a harmincadik születésnapját követően. De Isten Fiának gyermekkoráról és fel……続きを見る

While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, ……続きを見る

Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as……続きを見る

A survey of the Russian-born American author's work and themes questioning identity, politics, and multiculturalism Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart's……続きを見る

Rivista letta e conosciuta in Europa, Israele e Stati Uniti, «La Rassegna Mensile di Israel» è divenuta da tempo uno strumento indispensabile allo studioso della storia, del pensiero, della letterat……続きを見る

"La Rassegna Mensile di Israel" nasce nel 1925 e da allora, salvo per una interruzione di quasi un decennio - dal 1939 al 1948 - causata dalle leggi antiebraiche prima e dagli eventi bellici poi, ha……続きを見る

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were……続きを見る

A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art. Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth centuryーthe winner of the N……続きを見る