Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Magical American Jew
The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature...
Jewish Bodylore
Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in line both with feminist and queer theory. The...
The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations
A Bilingual Edition and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This first bilingual edition and analysis of the earliest Shakespeare plays translated into Hebrew – Isaac Edward Salkinson’s Ithiel the Cushite of Venice (Othello) and Ram and Jael (Romeo and Juliet) – offers a fascinating and unique perspective on global Shakespeare. Differing significantly...
by Laurel Plapp
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western...
Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters...
Borrowed Voices
Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...
Never Better!
The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel...
Music from a Speeding Train
Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence,...
Mediating Modernity
Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer’s seventieth birthday...
by David Gantt Gurley
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley...
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
by Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish...
Writing Jewish
Contemporary British-Jewish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores...
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination
A Case of Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people...