Modern Jewish literatures : intersections and boundaries

Modern Jewish literatures : intersections and boundaries / edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner.

Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lerner, L. Scott, Kramer, Michael P., 1952-, Jelen, Sheila E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Series:Jewish culture and contexts.
Subjects:
Jews in literature.
Judaism in literature.
Judaism and literature.
Jews > Identity.
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Hebrew literature > History and criticism.
Jewish literature > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Hebrew literature
Jewish literature
Jews > Identity
Jews in literature
Judaism and literature
Judaism in literature
Yiddish literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / David B. Ruderman
  • Introduction: intersections and boundaries in modern Jewish literary study / Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner
  • Literary culture and Jewish space around 1800: the Berlin salons revisited / Liliane Weissberg
  • Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem lost and Jerusalem regained / L. Scott Lerner
  • The merchant at the threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the poetics of apostasy / Amelia Glaser
  • Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lé́vy between Ladino and French: reconstructing a writer's social identity / Olga Borovaya
  • I.L. Peretz's "Between two mountains": neo-Hasidism and Jewish literary modernity / Nicham Ross
  • Neither here nor there: the critique of ideological progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke stories / Marc Caplan
  • Brenner: between Hebrew and Yiddish / Anita Shapira
  • Eisig Silberschlag and the persistence of the erotic in American Hebrew poetry / Alan Mintz
  • The art of sex in Yiddish poems: Celia Dropkin and her contemporaries / Kathryn Hellerstein
  • Ethnopoetics in the works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: gender, popular ethnography, and the literary face of Jewish Eastern Europe / Sheila E. Jelen
  • Eternal Jews and dead dogs: the diasporic other in Natan Alterman's The seventh column / Gideon Nevo
  • Inserted notes: David Boder's DP interview project and the languages of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen
  • Unpacking my father's bookstore / Laurence Roth
  • The art of assimilation: ironies, ambiguities, aesthetics / Michael P. Kramer
  • Hebraism and Yiddishism: paradigms of modern Jewish literary history / Anita Norich.

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