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Arguing the modern Jewish canon : essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse / ed. by Justin Cammy ...

Cammy, Justin Daniel ; Wisse, Ruth R., 1936- [Gefeierte/Gefeierter] ; Cammy, Justin Daniel [Hrsg.]

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2008

IX, 721 S : 1 Portr., Ill ; 25 cm

Englisch

Festschrift Ruth R. Wisse

0803

978-0-674-02585-1 (alk. paper); 0-674-02585-7 ((hbk.) : £48.95 hbk. : £48.95)

2007047941

b799478

OCoLC: 300102270     

OCoLC: 300102270 (aus SWB)     

Aufsatzsammlung | Festschrift

BD 8841  | GG 3677  | HU 1729      Ähnliche Literatur

PN842

809/.88924 ; 809.89924

Basisklassifikation: 11.29 (Judentum: Sonstiges) <Religionswissenschaft> ; 17.71 (Literaturgeschichte)

*Jiddisch ; Hebräisch ; Literatur ; Kanon ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift      Zum Register

*Juden ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jewish literature -- History and criticism ; Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism ; Hebrew literature -- History and criticism ; Hebrew language ; Yiddish language ; Judaism and literature ; Canon (Literature) ; Jews in literature

Jewish fiction / History and criticism ; Literature, Modern / Jewish authors / History and criticism ; Canon (Literature)

Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin -- Knocking on heaven's gate: Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz -- Holocaust literature: foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach -- Of Jews and canons: further thoughts / Ilan Stavans -- A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn -- Judging the judgment of Shomer, or arguing the borders of the modern Jewish canon / Justin Cammy -- The judgment of Shomer / Sholem Aleichem -- Daniel Deronda: the Zionist fate in English hands, and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander -- The pleasure of disregarding red lights: a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" (burned out) / Dan Miron -- The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich -- The open suitcases: Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven Yash Iz Gekumen / Avraham Novershtern -- Seductions and disputations: pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert -- Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies -- Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "androgynous" / Suzanne Klingenstein -- Building bridges destined to fall: biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The Ice Mine / Philip Hollander -- Life/writing: Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- The modern hero as schlemiel: the Swede in Philip Roth's American Pastoral / Michael Kimmage -- Innovation by translation: Yiddish as a dybbuk in Hebrew literary history / Ken Frieden -- Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot -- The smoke of civilization: the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di Klyatshe / Marc Caplan -- Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick -- Joyce's Yiddish: modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein -- The transmission of poetic anger: an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda -- Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing: the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick -- What's so funny about the Yiddish theater?: comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber --