Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse.

Cammy, Justin, Horn, Dara, Quint, Alyssa and Rubinstein, Rachel, edited by.

ISBN 10: 0674025857 / ISBN 13: 9780674025851

Edité par Center for Jewish Studies Harvard University distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008

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Octavo, glossy paper covered boards, frontispiece photo, x, 721 pp., b/w photos, Ruth Wisse Bibliography, contributors Introduction by the editors. Articles are "Writing Jewish," Hillel Halkin, "Knocking on Heaven's Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse's Canon," Alan Mintz, "Holocaust Literature: Foreshadowings and Shadowings," David Aberbach, "Of Jews and Canons: Further Thoughts," Ilan Stavans, "A Jewish Artistic Canon," Ezra Mendelsohn, "Judging 'The Judgement of Shomer' Jewish Literature versus Jewish Reading," Justin Cammy, "The Judgement of Shomer or The Jury Trial of All of Shomer's Novels," Sholem Aleichem (Translated and Annotated by Justin Cammy), "Daniel Deronda: 'The Zionist Fate in English Hands' and The Liberal Betrayla of the Jews," Edward Alexander, "The Pleasure of Disregarding Red Lights: A Reading of Sholem Aleichem's Monologue 'A Nisref,'" Dan Miron, "The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and His Ghost Reader," Sasha Senderovich, "The Open Suitcases: Yankev Glatstein's 'Ven Yash Iz Gekumen,'" Avraham Novershtern," "Seductions and Disputations: Pseudo-Dialogues in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer," Miriam Udel-Lambert, "Gimpel the Simple and on Reading from Right to Left," David G. Roskies, "Isaac Bashevis Singer's Short Story 'Androgynous,'" Susanne Klingenstein, "Building Bridges Destined to Fall: Bilogical and Literary Paternity in Appelfeld's 'The Ice Mine,'" Philip Hollander, "Alife/Writing: Aharon Appelfeld's Autobiographical Work and the Modern Jewish Canon," Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the Unspeakable," Hana Wirth-Nesher, "The Modern Hreo as Schlemiel: The Swede in Philip Roth's 'American Pastoral,'" Michael Kimmage, "Innovation by Translation: Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in Literary History," Ken Frieden, "Creating Yiddish Dialogue for 'The First Modern Yiddish Comedy,'" Marion Aptroot, "The Smoke of Civilization: The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitch's 'Di Klatshe,'" Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Canon Consciousness and the Dionysiac Spirit of Music," Jed Wyrick, "Joyce's Yiddish: Modernism, Translation, and the Jews," Rachel Rubinstein, "The Transmission of Poetic Anger: An Unexploded Shell in the Jewish Canon," Janet Hadda, "Guilt, Mourning, Idol Worship, and Golem Writing: The Symptoms of a Jewish Literarty Canon," Emily Miller Budick, "What's So Funny About Yiddish Theater? Comedy and the Origins of Yiddish Drama," Jeremy Dauber, "Naked Truths: Avrom Goldfaden's 'The Fanatic or the Two Kuni-Lemls,'" Alyssa Quint, "Memory as Metaphor: Meir Weiner's Novel 'Kolev Ashkenazi' as Critique of the Jewish Historical Imagination," Mikhail Krutikov, "Shmuel Nadler's 'Besht-Simfoye': At the Limits of Orthodox Literature," Beatrice Lang Caplan, "Chava Rosenfarb and 'The Tree of Life,'" Goldi Morgentaler, "Fiddles on Willow Trees: The Missing Polish Link in the Jewish Canon," Monika Adamczk-Garbowska, "The Kvetcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger and Challenges to the Modern Jewish Canon," Leah Garrett, "Israeli Identity in the Post-Zionist Age," Yaron Peleg, "Bellow's Canon," Jonathan Rosen, "The Eicha Problem," Dara Horn and "The Grand Explainer," Cynthia Ozick.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse.
• Éditeur: Center for Jewish Studies Harvard University distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674025857
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674025851
• Reliure: Hardbound
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book The Modern Jewish Canon (2000) and explore an array of topics that touch on aspects of Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.

Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon brings together writers both seasoned and young, from both within and beyond the academy, to reflect the diversity of Wisse's areas of expertise and reading audiences. The volume also includes a translation of one of the first modern texts on the question of Jewish literature, penned in 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Wisse's scholarship. In its richness and heft, Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon itself constitutes an important scholarly achievement in the field of modern Jewish literature.

À propos des auteurs

Justin Daniel Cammy is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College.

Dara Horn is the author of the novels In the Image and The World to Come.

Alyssa Quint is Professor of Jewish Literature, Princeton University.

Rachel Rubinstein is Jeremiah Kaplan Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Hampshire College.

Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Culture, Language, and Literature at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.