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Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction

Author : Naomi B. Sokoloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction written by Naomi B. Sokoloff and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The representation of a child's consciousness in adult literary texts is an unusual creative challenge. Nonetheless, the exercise of imagination required to portray a child's inner life has figured prominently in twentieth-century Jewish fiction. In Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction, Naomi Sokoloff draws on contemporary narrative theory--especially the work of M. M. Bakhtin--to establish a critical framework for reading a range of Hebrew, Yiddish, and English texts that focus on young protagonists and the workings of a child's imagination." "The fictional texts Sokoloff considers are not accounts of purely private experience. According to the author, the young character serves as a vehicle for expressing religious, social, and political concerns. The novelty of outlook made possible through attempts to inhabit "the otherness of the child" also offers a powerful literary strategy for exploring Jewish self-conception. To illustrate this dynamic, Sokoloff concentrates on two clusters of thematic materials. First, she discusses works by Sholem Aleichem, H. N. Bialik, and Henry Roth that "revolve around a shift away from the Torah-centered world of tradition toward more secular, individualistic, and uncertain definitions of Jewishness." She then proceeds to look at works by Jerzy Kosinski, Ahron Appelfeld, and David Grossman that deal with the Holocaust and the "precarious reclamation of Jewish identity" that followed." ""Far from being a marginal phenomenon concerned with a negligible "Other," Sokoloff writes, "the representation of the child's thought and inner life is integrally linked to some of the fundamental concerns of modern Jewish fiction: readjustments and reappraisals of faith, responses to catastrophe, and redefinitions of community.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction

Author : Naomi B. Sokoloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination

Author : Dan Miron
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628583
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination written by Dan Miron and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While A Traveler Disguised focused on the rhetoric of the speaking voice or the persona in these classics, the nine essays gathered here concentrate on the artistic reconstruction of the "world" conveyed by that persona. As much as the earlier volume put to rest the conventional understanding of "Mendele the Book-Peddler" as a mere representative of the author, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, this book invalidates the common views of the literary shtetl as a mere mimetic reflection of the historical Jewish shtetl of Eastern Europe and examines its structure as an autonomous aesthetic construct. These essays dwell particularly on the fictional modalities displayed in some of Sholem Aleichem's major works. They also offer innovative insights into the works of both earlier and later masters such as A. M. Dik, Y. Aksenfeld, Y .Y. Linetski and Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Y. L. Peretz, I. M. Vaysenberg, Sh. Asch, D. Bergelson, and I. B. Singer.

Teaching Jewish Civilization

Author : Moshe Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814718674
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Jewish Civilization written by Moshe Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization against the backdrop of university Jewish studies in different parts of the world, and provides a world register of university studies on Jewish civilization, listing institutions around the world in which Jewish civilization is taught or researched. Essays offer a historical perspective on issues confronting university Jewish studies, and look at specific projects and the Israel experience. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Imagining the American Jewish Community

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656708
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the American Jewish Community written by Jack Wertheimer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities

Imagining Russian Jewry

Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802316
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Russian Jewry written by Steven J. Zipperstein and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.

The Hired Girl

Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763679437
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Hired Girl written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.

Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination

Author : Marjorie Lehman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948532
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination written by Marjorie Lehman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Jews will feel intimately familiar with and attached to the figure of the ‘Jewish mother’, yet few have questioned representations of mothers and motherhood in Jewish culture. This volume aims to fill this gap by bringing to the fore the vast network of symbols and images which Jews have associated with mothers from the Bible to the modern period. It demonstrates the complex ways in which the Jewish mother has been used to construct and frame Jewish religion and culture.

Created in the Image?

Author : Or Rogovin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228022126
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Created in the Image? written by Or Rogovin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a brand of fiction that centres the experience and perspective of the perpetrator, thereby humanizing this character and granting it the capability to evoke our empathy. The vast scholarship published on this phenomenon, however, fails to consider Israeli writing, and with it some of the most complex characterizations of Holocaust perpetrators, imagined from the unparalleled position of a nation that was shaped from its very birth by the legacy of Holocaust victimhood and survival. In Created in the Image? Or Rogovin situates Israeli literary responses to the Holocaust in the canon of perpetrator fiction for the first time. Since the state’s establishment in 1948, perpetrator characterization in Israeli fiction has demonstrated a remarkable development that corresponds to changing circumstances, from the Eichmann trial to the First Intifada. While early examples depicted perpetrators stereotypically and minimally - as seen in Ka-Tzetnik’s demonic and bestial Nazis in Salamandra and in the amorphous persecutor figures in Aharon Appelfeld’s stories - since the mid-1980s these characters have been created in the human image, as nuanced and multidimensional individuals. The turning point came with Herr Neigel, the sensitive and self-contradictory commandant in David Grossman’s See Under: Love (1986), followed by likewise multifaceted and humanized perpetrators in fiction by A.B. Yehoshua, Savyon Liebrecht, and Amir Gutfreund. Anchored in theoretical and comparative perspectives, Created in the Image? presents a groundbreaking analysis of the poetic mechanisms, moral implications, and historical contexts of this paradigm shift in the Israeli literary response to the Shoah.

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

Author : Eva Mroczek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190279834
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity written by Eva Mroczek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Jews understand sacred writing before the concepts of "Bible" and "book" emerged? The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity challenges anachronistic categories to reveal new aspects of how ancient Jews imagined written revelation-a wildly varied collection stretching back to the dawn of time, with new discoveries always around the corner.

The Modern Jewish Canon

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226903187
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Jewish Canon written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon, her compassionate, insightful guide to the finest Jewish literature of the twentieth century. From Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick, Wisse's The Modern Jewish Canon is a book that every student of Jewish literature, and every reader of great fiction, will enjoy.

An American Dream

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081298613X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book An American Dream written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song. As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go. Praise for An American Dream “Perhaps the only serious New York novel since The Great Gatsby.”—Joan Didion, National Review “A devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires . . . the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “A work of fierce concentration . . . perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic [with] a pattern of remarkable imaginative coherence and intensity.”—Harper’s “At once violent, educated, and cool . . . This is our history as Hawthorne might have written it.”—Commentary Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post

Members of the Tribe

Author : Rachel Rubinstein
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337007
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Members of the Tribe written by Rachel Rubinstein and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of representations of American Indians in Jewish literature and popular media. In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian differently than their white counterparts, as they found in this figure a mirror for their own anxieties about tribal and national belonging. Through a series of literary readings, Rubinstein traces a shifting and unstable dynamic of imagined Indian-Jewish kinship that can easily give way to opposition and, especially in the contemporary moment, competition. In the first chapter, "Playing Indian, Becoming American," Rubinstein explores the Jewish representations of Indians over the nineteenth century, through narratives of encounter and acts of theatricalization. In chapter 2, "Going Native, Becoming Modern," she examines literary modernism’s fascination with the Indian-poet and a series of Yiddish translations of Indian chants that appeared in the modernist journal Shriftn in the 1920s. In the third chapter, "Red Jews," Rubinstein considers the work of Jewish writers from the left, including Tillie Olsen, Michael Gold, Nathanael West, John Sanford, and Howard Fast, and in chapter 4, "Henry Roth, Native Son," Rubinstein focuses on Henry Roth’s complicated appeals to Indianness. The final chapter, "First Nations," addresses contemporary contestations between Jews and Indians over cultural and territorial sovereignty, in literary and political discourse as well as in museum spaces. As Rubinstein considers how Jews used the figure of the Indian to feel "at home" in the United States, she enriches ongoing discussions about the ways that Jews negotiated their identity in relation to other cultural groups. Students of Jewish studies and literature will enjoy the unique insights in Members of the Tribe.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466883987
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Enormous Changes at the Last Minute written by Grace Paley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).

Jewish Children

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Children written by Sholem Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Author : Rabbi William Cutter
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580235948
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Healing and the Jewish Imagination written by Rabbi William Cutter and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin. Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live. Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the important distinctions between curing and healing. Topics discussed include: The Importance of the Individual Health and Healing among the Mystics Hope and the Hebrew Bible From Disability to Enablement Overcoming Stigma Jewish Bioethics Drawing from literature, personal experience, and the foundational texts of Judaism, these celebrated thinkers show us that healing is an idea that can both soften us so that we are open to inspiration as well as toughen us—like good scar tissue—in order to live with the consequences of being human.

Since 1948

Author : Nancy E. Berg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438480504
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Since 1948 written by Nancy E. Berg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical notice. These trends ushered in not only the discovery and recovery of literary works but also a major rethinking of literary history. In Since 1948, scholars consider how recent voices have succeeded older ones and reverberated in concert with them; how linguistic and geographical boundaries have blurred; how genres have shifted; and how canon and competition have shaped Israeli culture. Charting surprising trajectories of a vibrant, challenging, and dynamic literature, the contributors analyze texts composed in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic; by Jews and non-Jews; and by Israelis abroad as well as writers in Israel. What emerges is a portrait of Israeli literature as neither minor nor regional, but rather as transnational, multilingual, and worthy of international attention.