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An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century. Less attention has been paid to the fact that many of the key thinkers in “degener……続きを見る

La cronaca di un intenso amore. L'incontro tra mondi diversi sullo sfondo dell'«epoca ebraico-occidentale» di cui Kafka è l'estremo rappresentante. L'ultima grande testimonianza della koinè praghese……続きを見る

Prendendo spunto dai testi delle deportate, il volume mette in luce come è avvenuta la trasmissione "al femminile" dell'evento epocale della Shoah. L'autrice indaga su come le testimoni e le scrittr……続きを見る

American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the……続きを見る

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in ……続きを見る

Die bekanntesten Werke von Gabriele D'Annunzio präsentieren eine Sammlung von Schriften eines der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des italienischen Symbolismus und der Moderne. D'Annunzio, bekannt für ……続きを見る

The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how the explosiveness of the moment captured in each sho……続きを見る

From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today’s finest literary critics. This collection brings……続きを見る

Una Trilogia che ripercorre frammenti dell'oggi e connessioni col passato, la storia di una bambina e poi di una donna, dagli ultimi anni della Seconda guerra mondiale alla fine del secolo, sullo sf……続きを見る

As they were entering Egypt, Abram glimpsed Sarai's reflection in the Nile River. Though he had been married to her for years, this moment is positioned in a rabbinic narrative as a revelation. "Now……続きを見る

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assi……続きを見る

Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions……続きを見る

In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all th……続きを見る

**Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of id……続きを見る

Honorable Mention winner in the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize competition for French and Francophone Literary Studies A major figure in twentieth-century letters, Alb……続きを見る

An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly……続きを見る

Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron. Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates her l……続きを見る

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford ……続きを見る

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience. 続きを見る

This volume collects together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, to longer works such as P.G. Patmore's parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb and ……続きを見る

Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. From the verdant public commons in the heart of cities to the loo……続きを見る

Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War. Unlike memoirs and auto……続きを見る

La terra ritrovata è un'opera unica nel panorama storiografico italiano: analizza i romanzi novecenteschi dedicati all'identità ebraica partendo da un interrogativo ben preciso: il personaggio ebreo……続きを見る

Dostoevskij come rappresentante insuperabile della condizione ebraica contemporanea? Una rilettura originale del grande romanziere russo ottocentesco consente ad Alberto Lecco (1921-2004) di scrutar……続きを見る

Understanding the sacred text has been a wonderful yet elusive challenge through the ages. This book is a reading of the Bible, accessible to readers of all backgrounds and levels of familiarity wit……続きを見る

Unravels an internationally esteemed author's quest for a homeland A writer described as a "Jew in search of a fatherland" and a "wanderer in flight toward a tragic end," the Austrian writer Joseph ……続きを見る

Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives c……続きを見る

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hol……続きを見る

Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English p……続きを見る

In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Eu……続きを見る