Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Reconstructing the Old Country
American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest...
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust
Kafka's kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust...
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
Members of the Tribe
Native America in the Jewish Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian...
Dreaming of Michelangelo
Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover"...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
Lingering Bilingualism
Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
At the beginning of the twentieth century, ambitious young writers flocked from
Jewish towns and villages to cultural centers like Warsaw, Odessa, and Vilna
to seek their fortunes. These writers, typically proficient in both Hebrew and
Yiddish, gathered in literary salons and cafés to read, declaim,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:
How the individual...
Who We Are
On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular...
Mixed Feelings
Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature...
The Marriage Plot
Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
includes...
Jewish Rhetorics
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors’ definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance as allowing speakers to maintain a “resolute...
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating...