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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 ...
