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The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away t……続きを見る

A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: “Hebrew revival,” or the idea that Hebre……続きを見る

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and P……続きを見る

Nell’anno che segna il cinquantesimo anniversario dalla scomparsa di Martin Buber, questo volume svela un ritratto inedito del filosofo colto nei suoi anni giovanili sullo sfondo di un’incandescente……続きを見る

Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenazーthe Jewish communities in northern France, Germany……続きを見る

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein’s constant and varied writing about Jewish ……続きを見る

Descubre la emotiva y poderosa novela "Marianela" de Benito Pérez Galdós, una obra maestra que explora la belleza del espíritu humano frente a las adversidades y los prejuicios. "Marianela" nos pres……続きを見る

Adéntrate en el intrigante mundo de "Ganarás el pan..." de Pedro Mata, una novela que teje una narrativa profunda sobre la dignidad, la lucha y el sacrificio en el contexto de la sociedad del siglo ……続きを見る

Descubre la emotiva y poderosa novela "Marianela" de Benito Pérez Galdós, una obra maestra que explora la belleza del espíritu humano frente a las adversidades y los prejuicios. "Marianela" nos pres……続きを見る

Adéntrate en el intrigante mundo de "Ganarás el pan..." de Pedro Mata, una novela que teje una narrativa profunda sobre la dignidad, la lucha y el sacrificio en el contexto de la sociedad del siglo ……続きを見る

Descubre la intriga y la profundidad emocional de "La Prueba" de la condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán, una novela que explora las tensiones de la vida social y personal con una maestría literaria inigua……続きを見る

The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by ……続きを見る

The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by ……続きを見る

Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the State introduces and explores documentary poetry written by Israeli poets who came of age during the first two decades of the state and who, since ……続きを見る

"La coscienza di Zeno – Italo Svevo" : Il romanzo che ha portato la psicoanalisi e l’ironia nella modernità letteraria italiana Un capolavoro assoluto della narrativa del Novecento, in cui la nevros……続きを見る

Se questo è un uomo – Primo Levi : Un testimone dell’orrore, una voce della dignità umana Un libro necessario, lucido e sconvolgente, che racconta l’inferno di Auschwitz con la forza della verità e ……続きを見る

"Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini – Giorgio Bassani" : Una storia d’amore e memoria alle porte della tragedia Un classico intramontabile della narrativa italiana del Novecento, dove il ricordo di una g……続きを見る

La tregua – Primo Levi : Il ritorno alla vita dopo l’orrore: un viaggio tra speranza, memoria e identità Un’opera intensa e umanissima, in cui Primo Levi racconta l’odissea del ritorno da Auschwitz,……続きを見る

In Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo, Tovi Bibring argues that behind the restless parody and the sour tone of the tale, lies a fierc……続きを見る

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly one million Russian-speaking Jews have settled in Israel, reshaping its cultural, social, and political fabric. This influx has sparked a complex dialog……続きを見る

Samuel Joseph Agnon, Psychoanalysis and Jewish History: A Comparative Study compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887–1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert, Franz Kafka, D.H. ……続きを見る

The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned ……続きを見る

How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly gl……続きを見る

The year was 702 C.E., the place North Africa’s Aures Mountains. Al-Kahina, “the Sorceress” and princess of the Jewish Berber Jarawa tribe, prepared to lead her army in a last battle against invadin……続きを見る

Biography of Ludwig Lewisohn's life until 1934, an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. An imposing literary figure in America and Europe du……続きを見る

New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical ……続きを見る

Repositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature. Blending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, author Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the America……続きを見る

Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the English-speaking world-a la……続きを見る

"Jews and the American Slave Trade" by Samuel M. Goldstein is a compelling and meticulously researched historical investigation that challenges enduring misconceptions about Jewish involvement in on……続きを見る

Witness through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and afte……続きを見る