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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Author : Mark Krupnick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299214435
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination written by Mark Krupnick and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors—Krupnick’s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner—have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick’s work with the “deep places” of his own imagination.

The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond

Author : Ethan Goffman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557534810
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond written by Ethan Goffman and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, a variety of distinguished scholars revisit and rethink the legacy of the New York intellectuals, showing how this small, predominantly Jewish group moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement.

Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

Author : David Brauner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646167
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction written by David Brauner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.

Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature

Author : Gloria L. Cronin
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140614
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature written by Gloria L. Cronin and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.

The New Diaspora

Author : Avinoam Patt
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814340563
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The New Diaspora written by Avinoam Patt and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of contemporary American fiction and Jewish cultural history will find The New Diaspora enlightening and deeply engaging.

Profane

Author : Christopher S. Grenda
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520958225
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Profane written by Christopher S. Grenda and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts can be produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume’s approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries.

The Secular Rabbi

Author : Doris Kadish
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800858698
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Secular Rabbi written by Doris Kadish and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural background. Drawing on letters Rahv wrote to her mother from 1928 to 1931, when he was still named Philip Greenberg, Doris Kadish delves into the complex and enigmatic character of a man admired by luminaries as diverse as George Orwell, Mary McCarthy, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Hardwick, and William Styron. Textual analyses of Rahv’s works are woven together with other disparate materials: historical accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv’s colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to understand her own Jewish identity. In tracing Rahv’s personal, political, and literary evolution, Kadish sheds light on such literary movements as modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish writing as well as movements that defined American political history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, communism, fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.

Up Society's Ass, Copper

Author : Mark Shechner
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299193546
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Up Society's Ass, Copper written by Mark Shechner and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.

The Literary Mafia

Author : Josh Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300251424
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Mafia written by Josh Lambert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "Readers with an interest in the industry will find plenty of insights."--Publishers Weekly "From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in America's intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing story should."--Emily Tamkin, author of Bad Jews In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a "Jewish literary mafia" were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such accusations reflected a genuine transformation from an industry notorious for excluding Jews to one in which they arguably had become the most influential figures. Josh Lambert examines the dynamics between Jewish editors and Jewish writers; how Jewish women exposed the misogyny they faced from publishers; and how children of literary parents have struggled with and benefited from their inheritances. Drawing on interviews and tens of thousands of pages of letters and manuscripts, The Literary Mafia offers striking new discoveries about celebrated figures such as Lionel Trilling and Gordon Lish, and neglected fiction by writers including Ivan Gold, Ann Birstein, and Trudy Gertler. In the end, we learn how the success of one minority group has lessons for all who would like to see American literature become more equitable.

Jewish Book World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Book World written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning on the Left

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684580110
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Learning on the Left written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandeis University is the United States’ only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the university have made exceptional contributions to myriad disciplines, but they have played a surprising formidable role in American politics. Stephen J. Whitfield makes the case for the pertinence of Brandeis University in understanding the vicissitudes of American liberalism since the mid-twentieth century. Founded to serve as a refuge for qualified professors and students haunted by academic antisemitism, Brandeis University attracted those who generally envisioned the republic as worthy of betterment. Whether as liberals or as radicals, figures associated with the university typically adopted a critical stance toward American society and sometimes acted upon their reformist or militant beliefs. This volume is not an institutional history, but instead shows how one university, over the course of seven decades, employed and taught remarkable men and women who belong in our accounts of the evolution of American politics, especially on the left. In vivid prose, Whitfield invites readers to appreciate a singular case of the linkage of political influence with the fate of a particular university in modern America.

The Major Phases of Philip Roth

Author : David Gooblar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144118631X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Major Phases of Philip Roth written by David Gooblar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career.

Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages

Author : Velichka D. Ivanova
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604978570
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages written by Velichka D. Ivanova and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book like this is long overdue because not many are aware of the numerous intersections between Philip Roth's fiction and world literature. In highlighting these intersections and uneasy passages, this comparative approach offers an important contribution to Philip Roth studies as well as to comparative literary study in general. The fourteen chapters on this book summon Roth's intertextual links to authors ranging from the anonymous writer of the medieval play Everyman, through Thoreau, Hawthorne, Crane, Ellison, Coover, and the New York intellectuals in the United States, to Swift, Chekhov, Svevo, Kafka, Schulz, Gombrowicz, Camus, and Klíma in Europe, and on to Coetzee in South Africa. The book does not deal with all the works in Roth's canon, but it offers a selection of works representing the different stages of Roth's development as a writer. By offering new readings of both well-studied and lesser-studied works, sometimes in unexpected company, the book discloses the critical difference that comparative scholarship can affect. The uneasy passages the book opens will not exhaust the numerous intersections between Roth and the work of other writers. The book's contribution is to place Roth's fiction firmly in a larger transnational context. Far from insular, Roth's work appears as deeply rooted in the American canon while at the same time showing a remarkable openness, a persistent need for contact with his European forebears, and true engagement with contemporary world literature. The transnational perspective of the book makes it important for the rapidly growing field of transatlantic and transnational American studies. The book will be value to collections in American literature and Jewish studies, comparative literature and criticism, and transatlantic and transnational American studies.

Fierce Poise

Author : Alexander Nemerov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525560181
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fierce Poise written by Alexander Nemerov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begins, we are only now beginning to understand.” ―Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education. She also experienced anew―and left her mark on―the city in which she had been raised in privilege as the daughter of a judge, even as she left the security of that world to pursue her artistic ambitions. Brought to vivid life by acclaimed art historian Alexander Nemerov, these defining moments--from her first awed encounter with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings to her first solo gallery show to her tumultuous breakup with eminent art critic Clement Greenberg―comprise a portrait as bold and distinctive as the painter herself. Inspired by Pollock and the other male titans of abstract expressionism but committed to charting her own course, Frankenthaler was an artist whose talent was matched only by her unapologetic determination to distinguish herself in a man's world. Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her.

Rain Taxi Review of Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain Taxi Review of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of American Jewish History

Author : Stephen H. Norwood
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Jewish History written by Stephen H. Norwood and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every aspect of American culture has been profoundly influenced by Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

Author : Eva Mroczek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190886080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 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, USA. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Winner of the 2017 The George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of biblical texts to "revealed" books not found in our canon. Despite this diversity, the way we read Second Temple Jewish literature remains constrained by two anachronistic categories: a theological one, "Bible," and a bibliographic one,"book." The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity suggests ways of thinking about how Jews understood their own literature before these categories had emerged. In many Jewish texts, there is an awareness of a vast tradition of divine writing found in multiple locations that is only partially revealed in available scribal collections. Ancient heroes such as David are imagined not simply as scriptural authors, but as multidimensional characters who come to be known as great writers who are honored as founders of growing textual traditions. Scribes recognize the divine origin of texts such as Enoch literature and other writings revealed to ancient patriarchs, which present themselves not as derivative of the material that we now call biblical, but prior to it. Sacred writing stretches back to the dawn of time, yet new discoveries are always around the corner. Using familiar sources such as the Psalms, Ben Sira, and Jubilees, Eva Mroczek tells an unfamiliar story about sacred writing not bound in a Bible. In listening to the way ancient writers describe their own literature-rife with their own metaphors and narratives about writing-The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity also argues for greater suppleness in our own scholarly imagination, no longer bound by modern canonical and bibliographic assumptions.