%0 Book
%T Arguing the modern Jewish canon: essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse
%E Cammy, Justin Daniel
%D 2008
%I Harvard Univ. Press
%C Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
%@ 9780674025851
%G English
%F 550901884
%O ed. by Justin Cammy ...
%O Festschrift Ruth R. Wisse
%X 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, or arguing the borders of the modern Jewish canon / Justin Cammy -- The judgment of Shomer / Sholem Aleichem -- 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" (burned out) / 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" / Suzanne 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 as a dybbuk in Hebrew 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 --
%L 809/.88924
%K Jewish literature
%K History and criticism
%K Literature, Modern
%K Jewish authors
%K Hebrew literature
%K Hebrew language
%K Yiddish language
%K Judaism and literature
%K Canon (Literature)
%K Jews in literature
%K Jewish fiction
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