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Studies in Modern Jewish Literature

Book by Arnold J. Band; Jewish Publication Society, 2003

Subjects:

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef--1888-1970--Criticism And Interpretation, Band, Arnold J, Hebrew Literature--History And Criticism, Jewish Authors, Jewish Literature--History And Criticism, Jews--Identity, Judaism And Literature, Rabbinical Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of several broad aspects of Jewish literature of all periods...literature. *** The two terms Jewish literature and Hebrew literature introduce us to a set of problems unique to these literatures. Historically, Jews have...wrote primarily as Jews for a Jewish public and could therefore...
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Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

Book by Jonathan M. Hess; Stanford University Press, 2010

Subjects:

German Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Jewish Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature, Jews--Germany--Intellectual Life--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Became Novelists: The Emergence of Jewish Literature in Nineteenth-Century Germany...the academy today, defining what Jewish literature is rep- resents a difficult...literature that is produced for a Jewish readership, or can it be literature...
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From Mesopotamia to Modernity: Ten Introductions to Jewish History and Literature

Book by Burton L. Visotzky, David E. Fishman; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Jewish Literature--History And Criticism, Jews--History, Jews--Intellectual Life, Judaism--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...Of course, this literature was not created...expanse of medieval Jewish history is considered...new flowering of literature. The power of medieval...addition, medieval Jewish mysticism is considered...medieval mystical literature is now studied by...consideration of medieval Jewish mystical literature...
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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

Book by Hana Wirth-Nesher; Princeton University Press, 2006

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American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Bilingualism--United States, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), In Literature, Jews In Literature, Jews--United States--Intellectual Life, Jews--United States--Languages, Judaism And Literature--United States, Language And Languages In Literature, Multilingualism--United States, United States--Literatures--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...position in diasporic Jewish culture; insofar as...wideranging modernist Yiddish literature whose themes and readership...is rooted in European Jewish life is expressed by...prominent feature of Jewish literature, scholars and critics...their various studies of Jewish writing. As Ruth Wisse...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Book by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer; Cambridge University Press, 2003

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American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature, Jews--United States--Intellectual Life, Judaism And Literature--United States, Judaism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...any single definition of Jewish American literature. Whereas for Howe, Jewish American literature was...reflected explicitly in the literature itself. In other words...well: what do we mean by Jewish American identity, anyway...

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Journal Articles on: jewish literature

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth

Journal article by Carole S. Kessner; American Jewish History, Vol. 90, 2002

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth (Book)

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff...creative tension" in American Jewish literature. Making no secret of...Boyarin about Diaspora as a source of Jewish culture and power. Beginning with...
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Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France

Journal article by Jean Dunbabin; Medium Aevum, Vol. 80, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of...Einbinder, No Place of Rest." Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the...they indicate a thriving elite Jewish culture. As a result of Einbinders...
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Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law

Journal article by Michael Greenstein; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994

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American fiction--Jewish authors, Jewish law--Interpretation and construction, Jewish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Law and literature--Analysis, Law and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...Breaking the Mosaic code: Jewish literature vs. the law. by Michael...the relationship between Jewish law and literature is certainly Kafkas uncertain...relationship found in contemporary literature. Literatures way around the second commandments...
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The Embrace of the Rosebush: Anti-Hebraism in Modern Jewish Literature

Journal article by David Aberbach; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

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Hebrew language--Portrayals, Jewish literature--History, Jewish literature--Social aspects, Literature, Modern--Social aspects, Modern literature--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Hebraism in Modern Jewish Literature. by David Aberbach...to the traditional Jewish school) is especially grim in immigrant literature. In Jews Without...repaired. HEBREW AND JEWISH EDUCATION IN HEBREW LITERATURE. The jaundiced view...
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"Sonship" and Its Relevance for Jewish and Non-jewish Mystical Literatures

Journal article by Maftei Stefan-Sebastian; Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Vol. 8, 2009

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Bible, Books, Christianity, Jewish literature, Judaism, Mysticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...literatures parallel to the Jewish traditions, such as Christian and Gnostic literatures. What is also contributing...various non- Biblical literature, such as Hellenistic...God is revealed by Jewish mystical literatures and by rabbinic Judaism...can also be found in Jewish Heikhalot literature (p. 46). The second...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish literature

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A Survey of Jewish-American Writing

Magazine article by Stephen Wade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 276, June 2000

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Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jews, American--Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...contribution of Jewish American writers to mainstream literature has been significant...matter of the new Jewish American literature. Roth had to explain...future for this literature. The influential...Other minority literatures are far more assertive...side of this, Jewish writing hardly...
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Scarcity and Plenitude: Thoughts on Some Recent Jewish Books

Magazine article by Catherine Madsen; Cross Currents, Spring-Summer 2000

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A Spiritual Life (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Judaism--Social aspects, The Curse of Cain (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Ecology of Eden (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Handbook of Heartbreak (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...and Plenitude: Thoughts on Some Recent Jewish Books. by CATHERINE MADSEN Destroying...of suffering, and the love of study; Jewish ruthlessness is not battle-lust but...And from the start, the architects of Jewish thought were keenly aware of competition...
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Never Goodbye, Columbus : The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer

Magazine article by Morris Dickstein; The Nation, Vol. 273, October 22, 2001

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American Jews--Authorship, Goodbye, Columbus (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence, Howe, Irving--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, American--Authorship, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation, Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...looked less to literature than to stand...tradition of the Jewish jokes that Freud...the young Jewish prince, this...comedy into literature. The Oedipal...Ideology and Jewish Identity in American and Israeli Literature, edited by...
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What Does It Mean to Receive Tradition? Jewish Studies in Higher Education

Magazine article by Martin Kavka; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Summer 2006

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Education, Higher--Analysis, Higher education--Analysis, Jewish studies--Study and teaching, Judaism--Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...Gottheil to teach rabbinic literature and Jewish Biblical interpretation...wider variety of courses in Jewish language, literature, history, philosophy, and religion. Courses in Jewish studies more than doubled...
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New World Reorder: David Herman Hails the Younger Generation of Jewish-American Writers

Magazine article by David Herman; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, April 18, 2011

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American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, American fiction--Jewish authors, American writers--Appreciation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Appreciation, Authors, American--Works, Chabon, Michael--Appreciation, Chabon, Michael--Works, Englander, Nathan--Appreciation, Englander, Nathan--Works, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Appreciation, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Works, Gessen, Keith--Appreciation, Gessen, Keith--Works, Jewish American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Appreciation, Jewish authors--Works, Jewish writers--Appreciation, Jewish writers--Works, Krauss, Nicole--Appreciation, Krauss, Nicole--Works

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...Herman Hails the Younger Generation of Jewish-American Writers. by David Herman...brought out an outstanding anthology of Jewish-American literature. Over 1,200 pages, it covered the history of Jewish writing in America from the mid-17th...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish literature

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SHARED STORIES; Jewish Scholars Dare to Bridge Religious Divide

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), February 1, 2012

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Bible and literature, Bible as literature, Bible. N.T. (Sacred work), Biblical literature, Book publishing, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Talmud (Sacred work)

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...at the role intertestamental Jewish literature plays in the New Testament...the Dead Sea Scrolls, consider Jewish historians, and consult the...began as a loose collection of Jewish literature but became something very different...
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At Last, a New Horror Tale; the Unborn's Premise in Obscure Jewish Folklore Makes for an Interesting Storyline

Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), March 3, 2009

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Folk literature, Folklore

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tale; the Unborns Premise in Obscure Jewish Folklore Makes for an Interesting Storyline...interesting storyline, too. Drawing on Jewish folklore, The Unborn stars Odette Yustman...performed by the Nazis in World War II and a Jewish spirit called a "dybbuk" thatll do anything...
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MEET THE AUTHORS; Jewish Book Week

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 18, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...it in person as part of 2005s Jewish Book Week. Running from March...Britains annual celebration of Jewish-interest literature and far more besides. Maureen...Highlights include a debate on The Jewish Question and the resurgence of...
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Being a Jew Is Dangerous Now; after Two London Synagogues Are Attacked, an Acclaimed Jewish Writer Charts a Disturbing New Rise in Anti-Semitism - and the Dark Parallels with Medieval Persecution ..

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 25, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to this island, the Anglo-Jewish experience has been positive...who, according to a surreal Jewish Chronicle "exclusive", is...upper-class culture - and literature, too: see John Buchans Jewish villains, George du Mauriers...
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Jewish School Breaks Ground

Newspaper article by Ruth Gesmer Silverman; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 11, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Grove, where Chicagoland Jewish High School currently is...synagogues. It is the only Jewish school in the area not run...director of religious life. "Jewish values pervade all areas of study, whether its literature, science - including evolution...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish literature

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Jewish Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JEWISH LITERATURE see Hebrew literature . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hebrew Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...themselves to Haskalah, or literature of enlightenment, intended...mocher sforim . Zionism and Literature in Israel The rise of Zionism...Asher Ginzberg), gave Hebrew literature fresh impetus, and Palestine...Brenner, who described Jewish life in Eastern Europe and...
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German Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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GERMAN LITERATURE works in the German language by German...High German: From Early to Medieval Literature Heroic legends, among them the Lay...profoundly influenced the course of German literature, and Martin Luther s translation...
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Arabic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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ARABIC LITERATURE literary works written...The great body of Arabic literature includes works by Arabic...first significant Arabic literature was produced during the...the Latin translations of Jewish scholars. Since 1200 in...
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Apocrypha

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...period of time. Protestants follow Jewish tradition in regarding all these books as non-canonical. Jewish and Christian works resembling...1977); G. W. E. Nickelsburg, Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah...

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