%0 Book
%T Jewish literature and history: an interdisciplinary conversation
%S Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture 15
%D 2008
%I Univ. Press of Maryland
%C Bethesda, Md
%@ 9781934309131
%G English
%F 550901574
%O ed. by Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index
%X Literature and history: textual symbioses in modern Jewish studies / Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen -- Yiddish storytelling and the politics of rescue / David G. Roskies -- What's in a ghost story?: some preliminary considerations on history and allegory in Jewish literature / Jeremy Dauber -- From the shtetl with love: an episode in Ukrainian-Jewish literary history / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern -- Choices: language and genre in the works of dramatist Peretz Hirschbein / Miriam Isaacs -- Letter into text: epistolarity, history, and literature / Elisheva Carlebach -- Writing obituaries and declaring life: Jewish self-assertion in a New York Russian-language newspaper / Alice Nakhimovsky -- The beginning of poetry in Eretz Israel / Hannan Hever -- The case of the missing representation: abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Palestine / Eric Zakim -- Speakerly texts and historical realities: Mendele's relationship to the revival of Hebrew speech / Sheila E. Jelen -- Textual equivalence / ethnic difference: translation narratives in antiquity / -- Naomi Seidman
%L 809/.88924
%K Jewish literature
%K History and criticism
%K Hebrew literature
%9 Text
%9 Konferenzschrift