' Je tiens beaucoup à ma montre, c’est mon grand-père qui me l’a vendue sur son lit de mort. ' L’humour juif, c’est d’abord l’autodérision, une arme puissante face au malheur. Poussé à l’extrême, il……続きを見る
In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past b……続きを見る
The Emprise of Poetry analyzes the insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary fig……続きを見る
A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Pulitzer Prize-w……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
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
著者：Michael Hoberman
出版社： Rutgers University Press
発売日： 2018年12月06日
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from ……続きを見る
著者：Michael Kimmage
出版社： Stanford University Press
発売日： 2017年05月16日
In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these ……続きを見る
A number of American writers of mystery and detective fiction have been called “American Conan Doyle,” but only two created fictional detectives that have been called “American Sherlock Holmes,” Jac……続きを見る
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of ident……続きを見る
Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century “Hasidic Slasher,” obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosi……続きを見る
Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundl……続きを見る
