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  • - The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
    af Mark Cohen
    313,95 kr.

    In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. This title reintroduces this influential writer to a generation of readers.

  • af David Ehrlich
    238,95 kr.

    New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Cafe Shira's devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary cafe owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation. These characters form the heart of this wry, often poignant novel narrated through a series of vignettes. They are joined by a colorful cast of characters who frequent the literary cafe-long-married couples, young lovers, an eccentric poet, and a traumatized veteran-all finding refuge and occasionally wisdom among their motley urban community.Closely based on Ehrlich's own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a cafe that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Cafe Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love.

  • - Heralds of a New Age
    af Gilya G Schmidt
    688,95 kr.

    Illuminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism.

  • - Four Italian Writers and Judaism
    af Sergio Parussa
    348,95 kr.

    Explores the relationship between Judaism and writing in the works of four twentieth-century Italian writers: Umberto Saba, Natalia Ginzburg, Giorgio Bassani, and Primo Levi. This book examines the different ways in which each author's work responds to Judaism and the notion of Jewish identity.

  • - Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua
    af Bernard Horn
    358,95 kr.

    In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel's greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua is also his country's most audacious thinker about politics, culture, history, and Jewish identity.Yehoshua's achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community's deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, the agony of the Holocaust. He is a Jew who does not believe in God and a committed Zionist, and member of the "peace camp" in Israel who welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987.In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn's conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist's work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.

  • - Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia
    af Golda Werman
    178,95 kr.

    With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture of worldwide Yiddish literature. The collection includes two short stories and a novella, which offer a taste of Bergelson's elegiac prose style.

  • - Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States
    af Michael Weingrad
    483,95 kr.

    Over the last one hundred years, the story of Jews in the United States has been, by and large, one of successful and enthusiastic Americanization. Hundreds of thousands of Jews began the twentieth century as new arrivals in a foreign land yet soon became shapers and definers of American culture itself. One of the clearest expressions of this transformation has been the quick linguistic march of immigrant Jews and their children from Yiddish to English. In this book, Michael Weingrad presents a counter history of American Jewish culture, one that tells the story of literature written by a group whose core identity was neither American nor Jewish American. These writers were ardently and nationalistically Jewish and, despite adopting a new country, their linguistic and cultural allegiance was to the Hebrew language. Producing poetry, short fiction, novels, essays, and journals, these writers sought to express a Jewish cultural nationalism through literature. Weingrad explores Hebrew literature in the United States from the emergence of a group of writers connected with the Hebraist movement in the early twentieth century to the present. Radically expanding and challenging our conceptions of American and Jewish identities in literature, the author offers wide-ranging cultural analyses and thoughtful readings of key works. American Hebrew Literature restores a lost piece of the canvas of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in the twentieth century and invites readers to reimagine Jewish American writers of our own time.

  • - Judaism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon
    af Yaniv Hagbi
    483,95 kr.

    Explores S Y Agnon's theological and philosophical attitudes toward language, attitudes that to a large extent shaped his poetics and aesthetic values. Drawing on anthologies compiled by Agnon, this book examines his theoretical orientation and the ways he integrated into his poetics ideas about language that are rooted in Jewish theology.

  • - Queering Jewish American Culture
    af Warren D Hoffman
    338,95 kr.

    Examines the 1907 Yiddish play ""God of Vengeance"" by Sholem Asch, the cross-dressing films of Yiddish actress Molly Picon, and several short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. This book analyzes the English-language novels ""The Rise of David Levinsky"", ""Wasteland"", and Portnoy's ""Complaint"".

  • - The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of Realism
    af Elena M. Katz
    418,95 kr.

    The debate over the representation of Jews in Russian literature has been dominated by the dichotomy of anti- and philo-Semitic discourses. This title explores the construction of Jewishness as ""Otherness"" in the works of three of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century authors - Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev.

  • - An Autobiographical Fragment
    af Moses Rosenkranz
    348,95 kr.

    Recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history.

  • - History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction
    af Todd Hasak-Lowy
    413,95 kr.

    The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. This book traces the tensions between the extraliterary - the historical, social, and political - and the literary - the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic - in Hebrew fiction.

  • - Threshold Moments in American Literature
    af Merle L. Bachman
    413,95 kr.

    According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. This book offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance.

  • - Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America
    af Marc Miller
    278,95 - 413,95 kr.

    The first Yiddish writer to serve successfully as an interpreter and representative of this world was Morris Rosenfeld. This title examines the career of Rosenfeld, a key figure in the development of Yiddish literature geared to American immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

  • - The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine
    af Yael Chaver
    373,95 kr.

    As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature.

  • - A Novel
    af S. Y. Abramovitsh
    318,95 kr.

    A coming-of-age story of a shtetl child, the events of this novel unfold through the eyes of Hershl, who leaves his small town to become educated only to return to the Pale of Settlement in the wake of the 1881 pogroms. This epic novel explores the social upheaval faced by Russian Jews.

  • - The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
    af Mark Slobin
    313,95 kr.

    This volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It includes contextual responses to Jewish folk music, essays on musical influences, and notes and lyrics of nearly 300 folk songs.

  • - A Novel
    af Miron Izakson
    208,95 kr.

    Meir, the narrator of the story, is the personal servant of Nathan, a rich tycoon consumed with his obsessions. The deep connection between Meir and Nathan takes its toll on the relationships each man has with the women in his life, revealing issues of national identity and human weakness.

  • - Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things
    af Sholem Aleichem
    208,95 kr.

    The author of Yiddish novels and short stories, Sholem Aleichem, evokes the voices of Yiddish speakers in these monologues written between 1901 and 1916. In each piece, a man or a woman comes forward to tell the story.

  • - Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature
    af Alan L. Mintz
    208,95 kr.

    A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes.

  • - 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist
    af Alice Nakimovsky
    363,95 kr.

    Captures the artist, Grisha Bruskin's experiences as a Jew in Russia, the reality of life in an empire permeated by ideology, and the centrality of family. This book features photographs which create a distinct dialogue between word and image.

  • af Matthew Baigell
    558,95 kr.

    Examining the work of such artists as Mark Rothko, Max Weber, and Ruth Weisberg, this title reveals the different ways these artists responded to the Great Immigration, the Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, and the rise of feminism. It is suitable for those interested in modern American art and Jewish studies.

  • af Karen Grumberg
    493,95 kr.

    Place and Ideology examines literary depictions of vernacular places, the lived places of everyday life, such as balconies and cafs, to propose a reconceptualization of how space informs Israeli identity. In illuminating the intimate relations between vernacular place, identity, and ideology in the cultural imagination, it confronts issues central in Israel and beyond.

  • - Contemporary Jewish Writing in France
    af Thomas Nolden
    413,95 kr.

    An encyclopedic introduction to French Jewish literature as it has emerged since the late 1960s. This book provides an analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoal, and traces the development of the rich agenda of jeune litterature juive (young Jewish writing) from its beginnings in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s.

  • - In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow
    af Gloria L. Cronin
    253,95 - 548,95 kr.

    The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men - often intellectuals - who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. This work analyzes Bellow's oeuvre from a feminist perspective. It incorporates the insights of French feminist theory on Western male philosophers.

  • - The Return of the Exiled
    af Andrew Furman
    548,95 kr.

    Exploring the ambivalent relationship between multiculturalists and contemporary Jewish American literature, this text advocates a more inclusive and intellectually valid form than is currently practiced. It includes an historical overview of Jewish American fiction.

  • - The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin
    af Beth Kaplan
    208,95 - 263,95 kr.

    An illuminating inside look at the life and times of playwright and author Jacob Gordin, a central presence in the Golden Age of Yiddish theatre.

  • - Selected Works
    af Eliezer Shtaynbarg
    363,95 kr.

    The fable has a 3000-year-old tradition in Jewish literature, going back to the Bible and the Talmud. It was not until the advent of the illustrious poet and fabulist Eliezer Shtaynbarg that fable writing in Yiddish was honed to perfection. This text is devoted to Shtaynbarg's work.

  • - Stories from the Yiddish about Life in America
    af Henry Goodman
    283,95 kr.

    An abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Raisin and Joseph Opotashu. They offer a testament to the mother tongue through the trials of Americanization.

  • - The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
    af Dan Miron
    208,95 kr.

    In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.