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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

Booking Passage

Author : Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918215
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Booking Passage written by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the "poetics of exile and return." Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center–Jerusalem, Zion–fatefully out of reach. Opening the book with "Jewish Journeys," Ezrahi begins by examining the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the sublime realignment of the people with their original center. When the Holy Land became the site of a political drama of return in the nineteenth century, Jewish writing reflected the shift, traced here in the travel fictions of S.Y. Abramovitsh, S.Y. Agnon, and Sholem Aleichem. In "Jewish Geographies" Ezrahi explores aspects of reterritorialization through memory in the post-Holocaust writing of Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Aharon Appelfeld, I.B. Singer and Philip Roth. Europe, where Jews had dreamed of return, has become the new ruined shrine: The literary pilgrimages of these writers recall familiar patterns of grieving and representation and a tentative reinvention of the diasporic imagination–in America, of course, but, paradoxically, even in Zion.

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 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 Jewish Persona in the European Imagination

Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775621
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination written by Leonid Livak and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers—Christian, secular, and Jewish—based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture.

The Hired Girl

Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763679437
Total Pages : 400 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 400 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.

The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395340
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism

Author : Maria Diemling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317662989
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism written by Maria Diemling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maintain a distinctive Jewish identity. At the same time, these boundaries have consistently been subject to negotiation, transgression and contestation. The increasing fragmentation of Judaism into competing claims to membership, from Orthodox adherence to secular identities, has brought striking new dimensions to this complex interplay of boundaries and modes of identity and belonging in contemporary Judaism. Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism addresses these new dimensions, bringing together experts in the field to explore the various and fluid modes of expressing and defining Jewish identity in the modern world. Its interdisciplinary scholarship opens new perspectives on the prominent questions challenging scholars in Jewish Studies. Beyond simply being born Jewish, observance of Judaism has become a lifestyle choice and active assertion. Addressing the demographic changes brought by population mobility and ‘marrying out,’ as well as the complex relationships between Israel and the Diaspora, this book reveals how these shifting boundaries play out in a global context, where Orthodoxy meets innovative ways of defining and acquiring Jewish identity. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Jewish Studies, as well as general Religious Studies and those interested in the sociology of belonging and identities.

New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473192
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures written by Victoria Aarons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them. What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving farther away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. Contributors address such genres as biography, the graphic novel, alternate history, midrash, poetry, and third-generation and hidden-child Holocaust narratives. Both canonical and contemporary authors are covered, including Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Anne Frank, Dara Horn, Joe Kupert, Philip Roth, and William Styron. The range of critical approaches and authors examined makes this a valuable resource for scholars and teachers. Particularly in this troubling political moment, meditations on the new and continued relevance of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures for scholars, students, and the American public in general are invaluable. Sharon B. Oster, author of No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation

Author : M. Vaul-Grimwood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060563X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation written by M. Vaul-Grimwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented. In doing so, it demonstrates the continuing impact of familial and community Holocaust trauma, and the need for a precise, clearly developed theoretical framework in which to situate these works. This book will appeal to final year undergraduates and postgraduate students, as well as scholars in literary and Holocaust-related fields, and an audience with personal and professional interests in the 'second generation'.

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.

Israeli Writers Consider the "outsider"

Author : Leon I. Yudkin
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634981
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Israeli Writers Consider the "outsider" written by Leon I. Yudkin and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A society can be judged by its attitude to those who are outside or disadvantaged by reason of class, sex, race, language, background, disability, and so on. This volume seeks to address the models of otherness that exist in Israeli literature.

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: 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.

Reading Hebrew Literature

Author : Alan L. Mintz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584652007
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Reading Hebrew Literature written by Alan L. Mintz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six classic texts of modern Hebrew literature viewed from a variety of critical perspectives.

What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)

Author : Naomi B. Sokoloff
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295743778
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) written by Naomi B. Sokoloff and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses? How can the vibrancy of Hebrew literature be conveyed to a larger audience? The volume features a diverse group of distinguished contributors, including Sarah Bunin Benor, Dara Horn, Adriana Jacobs, Alan Mintz, Hannah Pressman, Adam Rovner, Ilan Stavans, Michael Weingrad, Robert Whitehill-Bashan, and Wendy Zierler. With lively personal insights, their essays give fellow Americans a glimpse into the richness of an exceptional language. Celebrating the vitality of modern Hebrew, this book addresses the challenges and joys of being a Hebraist in America in the twenty-first century. Together these essays explore ways to rekindle an interest in Hebrew studies, focusing not just on what Hebrew means—as a global phenomenon and long-lived tradition—but on what it can mean to Americans.

Raising Secular Jews

Author : Naomi Prawer Kadar
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611689880
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Raising Secular Jews written by Naomi Prawer Kadar and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique literary study of Yiddish children's periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schools, these Yiddish schools chose Yiddish itself as the primary conduit of Jewish identity and culture. Four Yiddish school networks emerged, which despite their political and ideological differences were all committed to propagating the Yiddish language, supporting social justice, and preparing their students for participation in both Jewish and American culture. Focusing on the Yiddish children's periodicals produced by the Labor Zionist Farband, the secular Sholem Aleichem schools, the socialist Workmen's Circle, and the Ordn schools of the Communist-aligned International Workers Order, Naomi Kadar shows how secular immigrant Jews sought to pass on their identity and values as they prepared their youth to become full-fledged Americans.

Holocaust Fiction

Author : Sue Vice
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415185521
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Fiction written by Sue Vice and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a critical survey of a broad range of fictional representations of the Holocaust published over the last 20 years.