ISBN:
9789004390683
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 63
Series Statement:
Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386310
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Snir, R. (Reuven), author Arab-Jewish literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Arab-Jewish Literature
Keywords:
Short stories, Arabic History and criticism 20th century
;
Jews Identity
;
History
;
Short stories, Arabic Translations into English
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Transliteration (Arabic) -- Transliteration (Hebrew) -- Historical Background -- Jews and Modern Arab Culture -- First Literary Attempts -- The Realistic Stage -- After the Immigration -- The Shift to Hebrew -- Between Identity and Literature -- Fiction, Meta-Fiction, and History -- Short Stories -- Between the Fangs of the Sea by Fatā Isrā’īl -- The Miserable Man by Murād Mīkhā’īl -- Violette by Anwar Shā’ul -- True Copy by Ya‘qūb Balbūl -- A Caravan from the Village by Shalom Darwīsh -- His Tragedy, a Proverb by Maryam al-Mullā -- The Schoolteacher by Mīr Baṣrī -- The Artist and the Falafel by Sammy Michael -- Chivalry by Esperance Cohen-Moreh -- The Story of the Perforator by Shalom Darwīsh -- The Cellar by Isḥāq Bār-Moshe -- Sheikh Shabtāy by Maurice Shammās -- A Dancer from Baghdad by Shmuel Moreh -- Iyya by Shimon Ballas -- Prophecies of a Madman in a Cursed City by Samīr Naqqāsh -- Anā min al-Yahūd by Almog Behar -- Authors and Books -- Back Matter -- General Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story , Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story among the Arabized Jews during the 1920s, especially in Iraq and Egypt, its development in the next two decades, until the emigration to Israel after 1948, and the efforts to continue the literary writing in Israeli society, the shift to Hebrew, and its current demise. The stories discussed in the book reflect the various stages of the development of Arab-Jewish identity during the twentieth century and are studied in the relevant updated theoretical and literary contexts. An anthology of sixteen translated stories is also included as an appendix to the book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004390683
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