Antonios Devils - Writers of Jewish Enlightenment Birth of Modern Hebrew Yiddish

Zusatztext "Dauber's textual exegesis is often very instructive." Jewish History Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Asher Dauber is the Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University. Klappentext Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The Merchant of Venice. > Zusammenfassung The author examines the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, focusing on the highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their potential and ideological goals.

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• Authors: Jeremy Dauber, Jeremy Asher Dauber, Jeremy Asher (Atran Assistant Professor of Dauber, Dauber Jeremy
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2004
• EAN: 9780804749015
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4901-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures