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Informationen zum Autor Sheila E. Jelen teaches English and Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. Michael P. Kramer is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. L. Scott Lerner is Professor of French and Italian at Franklin and Marshall College. Klappentext Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface —David B. Ruderman Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study —Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited —Liliane Weissberg Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained —L. Scott Lerner Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy —Amelia Glaser Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity —Olga Borovaya Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's "Between Two Mountains": Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity —Nicham Ross Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories —Marc Caplan Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish —Anita Shapira Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry —Alan Mintz Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries —Kathryn Hellerstein Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe —Sheila E. Jelen Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column —Gideon Nevo Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust —Alan Rosen Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore —Laurence Roth Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics —Michael P. Kramer Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History —Anita Norich List of Contributors Index ...
