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"The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Singer introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)-a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraine-to an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This collection of essay is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Singer's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The scholarly essays dealing with Agnon and Buczacz is an effort to remember the career of Alan Mintz and his contribution to the world of Jewish studies and within the world of Jewish communal life"--
List of contents
I. Alan Mintz on Agnon and Diaspora Hebraism
"Agnon on the Individual and the Community," from
Response, 1967
"Late Agnon and the Reimagining of Galician Jewry" (Fourteenth Annual Band Lecture, UCLA, February 12, 2015)
"My Life with Hebrew" (
Mosaic Magazine, April 13, 2017)
II. Tributes
David Roskies, "A Prophet in His City"
Anne Golomb Hoffman, "Remembering Alan Mintz"
Sidra Ezrahi, "For Alan"
BuczaczAvidov Lipsker, The Heavenly City: A Historiographic Paradigm in the Scholastic Cartography of S.Y. Agnon
Sheila Jelen, Salvage Poetics: Agnon's 'Imaginary Real' in
A Guest for the Night Nitza Ben-Dov, Divine Compassion From an Ironic Perspective: The Experience of the Shoah in Agnon's "The Sign,"
In his Generation Omer Bartov, Tales From Half-Asia: Small Town Galicians Encounter the World
Wendy Zierler, "Breaking the Idyll": Rereading Flaubert's
Madame Bovary and Agnon's
Sippur pashut Through Baron's "Fradl"
Maya Barzilai, Last Translations: Gershom Scholem's Renditions of S. Y. Agnon's Polish Tales
Early and Late Jeffrey Saks, From "A City of the Dead" to "A City in its Fullness": Evolving Depictions of Buczacz in the Long Agnonian Arc
Michal Arbell, Szybusz and the Crisis of Parenting"
Glenda Abramson, "Our Town": Mr. Stern and Buczacz in
Mr. Lubin's Store A Revolutionary Traditionalist Haim Beer, New Faces: A Study of
Sippur pashut Ariel Hirschfeld, The Source and the Depth of Oblivion: Story and Folktale in Two Stories by Agnon
James Diamond, "Agnon's Yamim Nora'im: Then and Now"
IV. Agnon Himself
The Partners Excerpts from
The Parable and Its Lesson Alan L. Mintz, List of Publications, Compiled by Menachem Butler (July 2020)
About the author
edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, Wendy Zierler
