{"product_id":"exile-and-the-jews-literature-history-and-identity-paperback-softback-9780827615557","title":"Exile and the Jews; Literature, History, and Identity (Paperback \/ softback) 9780827615557","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExile and the Jews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, History, and Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNancy E. Berg (Edited by), Marc Saperstein (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827615557\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.427 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Carefully researched and beautifully presented to create cross-generational conversations, moving from universal and existential to collective Jewish expressions of the diasporic condition, \u003ci\u003eExile and the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e is both accessible to the general reader and invaluable to the student or scholar of Jewish studies.”-Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, author of \u003ci\u003eBooking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I enthusiastically endorse this fascinating anthology as a textbook for higher education.”-Rifat Sonsino, rabbi emeritus, Temple Beth Shalom, Needham, Massachusetts, and author of \u003ci\u003eModern Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. Ordered along multiple arcs-from universal to particular, collective to individual, and mythic-symbolic to prosaic everyday living-the chapters present different facets of exile: as human condition, in history and life, in holiday rituals, in language, as penance and atonement, as internalized experience, in relation to the Divine Presence, and more. By illuminating the multidimensional nature of “exile”-political, philosophical, religious, psychological, and mythological-widely divergent evaluations of Jewish life in the Diaspora emerge. The word “exile” and its Hebrew equivalent, \u003ci\u003egalut\u003c\/i\u003e, evoke darkness, bleakness-and yet the condition offers spiritual renewal and engenders great expressions of Jewish cultural creativity: the Babylonian Talmud, medieval Jewish philosophy, golden age poetry, and modern Jewish literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExile and the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e will engage students, academics, and general readers in contemplating immigration, displacement, evolving identity, and more.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685562085656,"sku":"9780827615557","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/exile-and-the-jews-literature-history-and-identity-paperback-softback-9780827615557","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}