What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew: And What It Means to Americans - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 029574376X ISBN 13 : 9780295743769

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2018

Synopsis

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses? How can the vibrancy of Hebrew literature be conveyed to a larger audience? The volume features a diverse group of distinguished contributors, including Sarah Bunin Benor, Dara Horn, Adriana Jacobs, Alan Mintz, Hannah Pressman, Adam Rovner, Ilan Stavans, Michael Weingrad, Robert Whitehill-Bashan, and Wendy Zierler. With lively personal insights, their essays give fellow Americans a glimpse into the richness of an exceptional language. Celebrating the vitality of modern Hebrew, this book addresses the challenges and joys of being a Hebraist in America in the twenty-first century. Together these essays explore ways to rekindle an interest in Hebrew studies, focusing not just on what Hebrew means—as a global phenomenon and long-lived tradition—but on what it can mean to Americans.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of Washington's Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Her publications include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and several edited volumes, most recently Boundaries of Jewish Identity (with Susan A. Glenn; UW Press, 2010).

Nancy E. Berg is professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Washington University. She is the author of Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq (SUNY Press, 1996) and of numerous essays on Hebrew and Arabic literature appearing in collected volumes and in such journals as AJS Review, Prooftexts, Hebrew Studies, Edebiyat, and the Journal of Arabic Literature. She has served as President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 029574376X
• ISBN 13: 9780295743769
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Sokoloff Naomi B., Berg Nancy E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible