Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Bestiarium Judaicum
Unnatural Histories of the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals—pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories?
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Unfinalized Moments
Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection...
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund
A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different...
Feeling Jewish
(A Book for Just About Anyone)
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction,...
Strangers in Berlin
Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view German and East European Jewish cultures as separate fields of study, Strangers in Berlin is the...
At Odds in the World
Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose works that span the years 1956...
by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Chapters on Jewish Literature is a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. After teaching for several years at Jews' College, London, Abrahams was appointed reader in Talmudics (rabbinic literature) at the University of Cambridge,...
by Riv-Ellen Prell
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism...
by Lisa Lampert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of...
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish...
by Gustav Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In a well-known passage of the Romanzero, rebuking Jewish women for their ignorance of the magnificent golden age of their nation's poetry, Heine used unmeasured terms of condemnation. He was too severe, for the sources from which he drew his own information were of a purely scientific character,...
An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century...
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl
Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
“Explore[s] the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds.” —Jewish Book Council
At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote...
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars
Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories - An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
- This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.- This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent...