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American Hebraist

Author : Alan Mintz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271094672
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Hebraist written by Alan Mintz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz’s scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs. American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction. Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship.

American Hebraist

Author : Alan Mintz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271094664
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Hebraist written by Alan Mintz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz’s scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs. American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction. Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship.

American Hebraist

Author : Alan Mintz
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271092386
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book American Hebraist written by Alan Mintz and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by David Stern and an epilogue by Beverly Bailis.

God's Sacred Tongue

Author : Shalom L. Goldman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620235
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book God's Sacred Tongue written by Shalom L. Goldman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century, Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American interest in the Middle East. God's Sacred Tongue is structured around a sequence of biographical and intellectual portraits of individuals including Jonathan Edwards, Isaac Nordheimer, Professor George Bush (an ancestor of President George W. Bush), and twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson. Since the colonial period, America has been perceived as a western Promised Land with emotional, spiritual, and physical links to the Promised Land of biblical history. Goldman gives evidence from scholarship, diplomacy, journalism, the history of higher education, and the arts to show that this perception is linked to the role Hebrew and the Bible have played in American cultural history. The book's final section takes up the story of American Christian Zionism, among whose Protestant adherents political Zionism found much of its strongest support. Religious and cultural figures such as William Rainey Harper and Reinhold Niebuhr are among those who exemplify the centuries-old ties between America, the Land of Promise, and Israel, the Promised Land.

Hebrew and the Bible in America

Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hebrew and the Bible in America written by Shalom Goldman and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Hebrew in America

Author : Alan L. Mintz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814323519
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Hebrew in America written by Alan L. Mintz and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the millions of Jews who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century, there were the few for whom Hebrew culture was an important ideal. Reaching a critical mass around World War I, these American Hebraists attempted to establish a vital Hebrew culture in America. They founded journals and wrote Hebrew poetry, fiction, and essays, largely about the American Jewish experience, and they succeeded in putting a Hebraist stamp upon most of the Jewish education that took place between the two world wars. Hebrew in America is the first book to fully explore the Jewish attachment to Hebrew in twentieth-century North America. Fifteen leading scholars in Judaic studies write about the legacy of American Hebraism and the claims it continues to make upon the soul of the American Jewish community. While they might commonly lament the eclipse of Hebrew in America, they speak with many different voices when it comes to the analysis of problems and the prospects for change. Several writers look backward to the impact of the Hebrew movement in America on literature and education. Others consider the implications of Hebrew's arrival on the college campus. Another emphasis of the book is the relationship between language and culture in the case of Hebrew from anthropological, educational, and linguistic perspectives. And finally, several essays assess the role of Hebrew in the development of Jewish leadership in America as regards the relationship with the classic past and with contemporary Israel.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796996
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Author : Uzi Rebhun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199380325
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Social Scientific Study of Jewry written by Uzi Rebhun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium consists of essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in the complementary fields of demography, sociology, economics, and geography. The social sciences are central for the understanding of contemporary Jewish life and have engendered much controversy over the past few decades. To a large extent, the multitude of approaches toward Jewish social science research reflects the nature of population studies in general, and that of religions and ethnic groups in particular. Yet the variation in methodology, definitions, and measures of demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural patterns is even more salient in the study of Jews. Different data sets have different definitions for what is "Jewish" or "who is a Jew." In addition, Jews as a group are characterized by high rates of migration, including repeated migration, which makes it difficult to track any given Jewish population. Finally, the question of identification is complicated by the fact that in most places, especially outside of Israel, it is not clear whether "being Jewish" is primarily a religious or an ethnic matter - or both, or neither. This volume also features an essay on American Jewry and North African Jewry; review essays on rebuilding after the Holocaust, Nazi war crimes trials, and Jewish historiography; and reviews of new titles in Jewish studies.

The Israeli-American Connection

Author : Michael Brown
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814344585
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Israeli-American Connection written by Michael Brown and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israeli-American Connection examines the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the world wars. In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurian, focusing on each leader's involvement with and image of America, as well as the impact of America on their lives and careers.

The Making of the Israeli Far-Right

Author : Peter Bergamin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838604790
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Israeli Far-Right written by Peter Bergamin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abba Ahimeir (1897 –1962) writer, journalist and historian began his public life as a socialist, but subsequently moved toward the rightward extreme of Zionist ideology. One of the earliest opponents of the British Mandate, in 1930 he founded a radical organization called Brit Habiryonim (the Union of Zionist Rebels). This was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionist Movement (ZRM) in Palestine whose official ideology was Maximalist Revisionism, an ideology for which Ahimeir is now most well-known. Ahimeir's career as a political activist came to an early end, when he was arrested in connection with the murder of the Labour Zionist leader, Chaim Arlosoroff. Although acquitted, Ahimeir nonetheless went to prison for his involvement as a political activist. This is the first intellectual biography of one of the most influential figures on the Zionist Right. Based on much unseen primary source material from the Ahimeir archive in Ramat Gan and the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv, as well as Ahimeir's newspaper articles, the author provides a rigorous analysis of Ahimeir's ideological development. The book positions him more accurately within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, updates common misunderstanding about this period of history and revises Israeli collective memory.

Dictionary of Jewish Biography

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441197842
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Jewish Biography written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness of the Jewish heritage. Modelled on the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Christian Biography (Continuum 2001) and with the advice of leading Jewish scholars, the Dictionary of Jewish Biography provides a rapid reference to those Jewish men and women who have, over the last four thousand years, contributed to the life of the Jewish people and the history of the Jewish religion. This dictionary will prove essential for general readers interested in the evolution of Judaism from ancient times to the present day, a perfect study aid for students and teachers. Designed as an accessible reference tool, this volume is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the history of the Jewish people - the uninitiated will become initiated; the curious will become informed; the informed will now have a handy reference tool.

American Presbyterian and Theological Review

Author : Henry Boynton Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Presbyterian and Theological Review written by Henry Boynton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Presbyterian and Theological Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The American Presbyterian and Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jewish American Literature

Author : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048094
Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish American Literature by : Jules Chametzky

Download or read book Jewish American Literature written by Jules Chametzky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.

Jews in America

Author : Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532644116
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Jews in America written by Matthew B. Schwartz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a readable question-and-answer format, Jews in America: The First 500 Years presents the activities of Jews in America since the beginnings of European settlement. It tells something of the story of how Jews came to the “golden land” and what they have done here—men and women, scientists and athletes, soldiers and merchants, settlers and scholars. It is indeed a remarkable story.