Arab-Jewish Literature - The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story

Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story offers an account of the development of the art of the Arabic short story among the Arabized Jews during the twentieth century. An anthology of sixteen translated stories are included as an appendix to the book.

About the author

Reuven Snir is a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Haifa. His most recent books in English include Baghdad ― The City in Verse (2013), Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? (2015), and Modern Arabic Literature: A Theoretical Framework (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Reuven Snir
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2019
• EAN: 9789004390676
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39067-6
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Brill's Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies