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What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual ……続きを見る

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence a……続きを見る

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized fema……続きを見る

Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why sh……続きを見る

This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t fully happenedーat least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say “Jewish Studies”ーand when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but as a……続きを見る

Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash. The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative t……続きを見る

In the Zionist view of Israeli history, the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem - the Jewish community of the 19th and early 20th centuries - was "a lifeless body ruled by hypocrites, cheats and unschooled rabb……続きを見る

Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The first comprehensive investi……続きを見る

"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social……続きを見る

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city’s Jewi……続きを見る

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of loveーoften unrequited or impossible loveーto comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews i……続きを見る

Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national litera……続きを見る

Un breve ma lucido saggio sul rapporto tra il grande poeta e il popolo ebraico. "Che concetto avesse Dante degli antichi israeliti non è facil cosa il provare, perchè taluni mette a cielo, altri pio……続きを見る

From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber (1885--1968) published a series of bestselling novels that made her one of Doubleday's highest-paid authors, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925,……続きを見る

YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was establ……続きを見る

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later ……続きを見る

The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka’s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications. It falls into two parts. The first is organized around the ……続きを見る

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

"Benarroch tells us that the homeland is always somehwere else, not on maps, it is the smell of an orange tree in Granada on an evening that never existed." Jose Luis Garcia Martin, El Mundo, Spain.……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