Arguing the modern Jewish canon : essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse /

Arguing the modern Jewish canon : essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cammy, Justin Daniel, Wisse, Ruth R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University : 2008.
Subjects:
Jewish literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Hebrew literature > History and criticism.
Hebrew language.
Yiddish language.
Judaism and literature.
Canon (Literature)
Jews in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin
  • Knocking on heaven's gate : Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz
  • Holocaust literature : foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach
  • Of Jews and canons : further thoughts / Ilan Stavans
  • A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn
  • Judging The judgment of Shomer : Jewish literature versus Jewish reading / Justin Cammy
  • The judgment of Shomer or the jury trial of all of Shomer's novels / Sholem Aleichem ; translated and annotated by Justin Cammy
  • Daniel Deronda : "the Zionist fate in English hands" and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander
  • The pleasure of disregarding red lights : a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" / Dan Miron
  • The Hershele Maze : Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich
  • The open suitcases : Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven yash iz gekumen / Avraham Novershtern
  • Seductions and disputations : pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert
  • Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Androgynous" / Susanne Klingenstein
  • Building bridges destined to fall : biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The ice mine / Philip Hollander
  • Life/writing : Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff
  • Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher
  • The modern hero as schlemiel : the Swede in Philip Roth's American pastoral / Michael Kimmage
  • Innovation by translation : Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in literary history / Ken Frieden
  • Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot
  • The smoke of civilization : the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di klyatshe / Marc Caplan
  • Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick
  • Joyce's Yiddish : modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein
  • The transmission of poetic anger : an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda
  • Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing : the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick
  • What's so funny about the Yiddish theater? : comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber
  • Naked truths : Avraham Goldfaden's The fanatic or the two kuni-lemls / Alyssa Quint
  • Memory as metaphor : Meir Wiener's novel Kolev ashkenazi as critique of the Jewish historical imagination / Mikhail Krutikov
  • Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye : at the limits of orthodox literature / Beatrice Lang Caplan
  • Chava Rosenfarb and The tree of life / Goldie Morgentaler
  • Fiddles on willow trees : the missing Polish link in the Jewish canon / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
  • The Kvetcher in the rye : J.D. Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon / Leah garrett
  • Israeli identity in a post-Zionist age / Yaron Peleg
  • Bellow's canon / Jonathan Rosen
  • The Eicha problem / Dara Horn
  • The great explainer / Cynthia Ozick.