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- catalog abstract "What Is Jewish Literature? is a richly thoughtful analysis and comprehensive overview of what defines Jewish literature. It is an international collection, featuring authors and scholars who write in different languages from different literary, spiritual, and personal perspectives. The book explores long-standing questions: What are the criteria for identifying Jewish literature? Are they language, religious affiliation of the author, religious sensibility, a distinctive Jewish imagination, or literary tradition? If the writer is the criterion, do Sholem Aleichem and Nathanael West really inhabit a shared universe? Is a text by S.Y. Agnon part of the same literary tradition as a play by Arthur Miller? Is Yiddish or Hebrew or Ladino the defining element? If so, where do we place Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Elie Weisel, Saul Bellow, Nellie Sachs? Is tradition the yardstick? Do we then classify Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet as a Jewish novel ... as Holocaust literature ... as American fiction? What Is Jewish Literature? debates all these possibilities. It is a landmark collection that encourages the reader to participate in the quest for answers that defy simple responses. The contributors reflect the multilingual and multicultural nature of any discussion of Jewish literature. Their voices range from polemical to speculative, from scientific to lyrical. What Is Jewish Literature? is an enduring contribution to the literary resource for the scholar, the teacher, and the student and for any individual who strives to appreciate, evaluate, and understand the varied riches of Jewish writing.".
- catalog contributor b6660834.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "(cont.) The story's the thing / David G. Roskies -- Two Jews talking : a view of modern Yiddish literature / Ruth R. Wisse -- The semiotics of Yiddish communication / Benjamin Harshav -- Shadows of identity : a comparative study of German Jewish and American Jewish literature / Gershon Shaked -- Lost voices : Jewish authors in modern Arabic literature / Sasson Somekh -- The example of Issac Babel / Simon Markish -- From Newark to Prague : Roth's place in the American Jewish literary tradition / Hana Wirth-Nesher.".
- catalog description "Defining the indefinable : what is Jewish literature? / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- On Jewish storytelling / Saul Bellow -- America : toward Yavneh / Cynthia Ozick -- The question of American Jewish poetry / John Hollander -- Jewish dreams and nightmares / Robert Alter -- One literature in two languages / Baal-Makhshoves -- Notes on Hebrew literature / Baruch Kurzweil -- Israeli or Jewish literature? / Yonatan Ratosh -- Modern Hebrew literature : Zionist perspectives and Israeli realities / Dan Miron --".
- catalog description "Includes biliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.".
- catalog description "Is tradition the yardstick? Do we then classify Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet as a Jewish novel ... as Holocaust literature ... as American fiction? What Is Jewish Literature? debates all these possibilities. It is a landmark collection that encourages the reader to participate in the quest for answers that defy simple responses. The contributors reflect the multilingual and multicultural nature of any discussion of Jewish literature. Their voices range from polemical to speculative, from scientific to lyrical. What Is Jewish Literature? is an enduring contribution to the literary resource for the scholar, the teacher, and the student and for any individual who strives to appreciate, evaluate, and understand the varied riches of Jewish writing.".
- catalog description "What Is Jewish Literature? is a richly thoughtful analysis and comprehensive overview of what defines Jewish literature. It is an international collection, featuring authors and scholars who write in different languages from different literary, spiritual, and personal perspectives. The book explores long-standing questions: What are the criteria for identifying Jewish literature? Are they language, religious affiliation of the author, religious sensibility, a distinctive Jewish imagination, or literary tradition? If the writer is the criterion, do Sholem Aleichem and Nathanael West really inhabit a shared universe? Is a text by S.Y. Agnon part of the same literary tradition as a play by Arthur Miller? Is Yiddish or Hebrew or Ladino the defining element? If so, where do we place Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Elie Weisel, Saul Bellow, Nellie Sachs?".
- catalog extent "x, 271 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "What is Jewish literature?".
- catalog identifier "0827605137 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0827605382".
- catalog isFormatOf "What is Jewish literature?".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,".
- catalog relation "What is Jewish literature?".
- catalog subject "809/.88924 20".
- catalog subject "American literature Jewish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Israeli literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jewish literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jews Identity.".
- catalog subject "Jews Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Judaism and literature.".
- catalog subject "PN842 .W48 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) The story's the thing / David G. Roskies -- Two Jews talking : a view of modern Yiddish literature / Ruth R. Wisse -- The semiotics of Yiddish communication / Benjamin Harshav -- Shadows of identity : a comparative study of German Jewish and American Jewish literature / Gershon Shaked -- Lost voices : Jewish authors in modern Arabic literature / Sasson Somekh -- The example of Issac Babel / Simon Markish -- From Newark to Prague : Roth's place in the American Jewish literary tradition / Hana Wirth-Nesher.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Defining the indefinable : what is Jewish literature? / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- On Jewish storytelling / Saul Bellow -- America : toward Yavneh / Cynthia Ozick -- The question of American Jewish poetry / John Hollander -- Jewish dreams and nightmares / Robert Alter -- One literature in two languages / Baal-Makhshoves -- Notes on Hebrew literature / Baruch Kurzweil -- Israeli or Jewish literature? / Yonatan Ratosh -- Modern Hebrew literature : Zionist perspectives and Israeli realities / Dan Miron --".
- catalog title "What is Jewish literature? / edited with an introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".