Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon

Klappentext Ruth R. Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume! Wisse's colleagues pay tribute to her with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish! Hebrew! Israeli! American! European! and Holocaust literature. Inspired by her award-winning book! The Modern Jewish Canon! Wisse's fellow scholars take up many questions raised by her definition of Jewish canonicity! while offering new readings of such disparate writers as George Eliot! Isaac Babel! J. D. Salinger! S. Y. Agnon! Philip Roth! and many others. Zusammenfassung Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and a fearless public intellectual on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, her colleagues pay tribute with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.

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• Authors: Justin Daniel Cammy, Justin Daniel (EDT)/ Horn Cammy
• Assisted by: Justin Daniel Cammy (Editor), Dara Horn (Editor), Alyssa Quint (Editor), Rachel Rubinstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780674025851
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02585-1
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Stud; Harvard Center for Jewish Studies; Harvard Center for Jewish Studies; Harvard Center for Jewish Studies (HAR)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies