ISBN:
9781934309131
,
1934309133
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 248 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture 15
Series Statement:
Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
809/.88924
Keywords:
Jewish literature Congresses History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature Congresses History and criticism
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Literature and history: textual symbioses in modern Jewish studies / Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen -- Yiddish storytelling and the politics of rescue / David G. Roskies -- What's in a ghost story?: some preliminary considerations on history and allegory in Jewish literature / Jeremy Dauber -- From the shtetl with love: an episode in Ukrainian-Jewish literary history / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern -- Choices: language and genre in the works of dramatist Peretz Hirschbein / Miriam Isaacs -- Letter into text: epistolarity, history, and literature / Elisheva Carlebach -- Writing obituaries and declaring life: Jewish self-assertion in a New York Russian-language newspaper / Alice Nakhimovsky -- The beginning of poetry in Eretz Israel / Hannan Hever -- The case of the missing representation: abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Palestine / Eric Zakim -- Speakerly texts and historical realities: Mendele's relationship to the revival of Hebrew speech / Sheila E. Jelen -- Textual equivalence / ethnic difference: translation narratives in antiquity / -- Naomi Seidman
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index
,
Literature and history: textual symbioses in modern Jewish studies
,
Yiddish storytelling and the politics of rescue
,
What's in a ghost story?: some preliminary considerations on history and allegory in Jewish literature
,
From the shtetl with love: an episode in Ukrainian-Jewish literary history
,
Choices: language and genre in the works of dramatist Peretz Hirschbein
,
Letter into text: epistolarity, history, and literature
,
Writing obituaries and declaring life: Jewish self-assertion in a New York Russian-language newspaper
,
The beginning of poetry in Eretz Israel
,
The case of the missing representation: abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Palestine
,
Speakerly texts and historical realities: Mendele's relationship to the revival of Hebrew speech
,
Textual equivalence
,
Naomi Seidman.
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