{"product_id":"modern-jewish-literatures-intersections-and-boundaries-hardback-9780812242720","title":"Modern Jewish Literatures; Intersections and Boundaries (Hardback) 9780812242720","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModern Jewish Literatures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIntersections and Boundaries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSheila E. Jelen (Edited by), Michael P. Kramer (Edited by), L. Scott Lerner (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812242720\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 9 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language-though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included-and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category.\u003cbr\u003e Each of the fifteen essays collected in \u003ci\u003eModern Jewish Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries-between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e The literary world described in \u003ci\u003eModern Jewish Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e -David B. Ruderman\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study\u003cbr\u003e -Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited\u003cbr\u003e -Liliane Weissberg\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained\u003cbr\u003e -L. Scott Lerner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy\u003cbr\u003e -Amelia Glaser\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy\/Sam LÉvy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity\u003cbr\u003e -Olga Borovaya\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's \"Between Two Mountains\": Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity\u003cbr\u003e -Nicham Ross\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories\u003cbr\u003e -Marc Caplan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish\u003cbr\u003e -Anita Shapira\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry\u003cbr\u003e -Alan Mintz\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries\u003cbr\u003e -Kathryn Hellerstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e -Sheila E. Jelen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column\u003cbr\u003e -Gideon Nevo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e -Alan Rosen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore\u003cbr\u003e -Laurence Roth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e -Michael P. Kramer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History\u003cbr\u003e -Anita Norich\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710824728,"sku":"9780812242720","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modern-jewish-literatures-intersections-and-boundaries-hardback-9780812242720","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}