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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts

Ezra Mendelsohn

Abstract

This volume collects chapters on Jewish literature which deal with “the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the “Jewish question.”” Chapters in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other “non-Jewish” languages. The chapters also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their “search for a useable past.” From chapters on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's n ... More

Keywords: Jewish literature, Jewish identity, Jewish question, Diaspora, Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish writers, Philip Roth, Jabotinsky

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1997 Print ISBN-13: 9780195112030
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112030.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ezra Mendelsohn, editor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Preface

Symposium Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts

Dramatic History: Reflections on a Biblical Play by Ludwig Robert

Liliane Weissberg (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)

Englishness and Extraterritoriality: British-Jewish Writing and Diaspora Culture

Bryan Cheyette (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)

Jabotinsky as Playwright: New Texts, New Subtexts

Michael Stanislawski (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)

Rabbis, Rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past in Modern Yiddish Literature

David G.Roskies (JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY)

Between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Janus Face of Michah Yosef Berdichevsky

MarcusMoseley (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

The Frankist Novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Chone Shmeruk (THEH EBREWU NIVERSITY)

Language as Fate: Reflections on Jewish Literature in America

Ruthr R.Wisse (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

The Grapes of Roth: “Diasporism” Between Portnoy and Shy lock

Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi (THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY)

Essays

Autonomy and Its Discontents: The Austrian Jewish Congress Movement, 1917–1918

David Rechter (OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES)

Jabotinsky's Use of National Myths in Political Struggles

Joseph Heller (THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY)

Pageants of Sorrow, Celebration and Protest: The Public Culture of American Jews

ArthurAryehGoren (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY—THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY)

Review Essays

Literary Representations of “the Jew”

Ezra Mendelsohn

The Perils of Translation: Isaac Bashevis Singer in English and Hebrew

Ezra Mendelsohn

Democracy in Israel: Proven Yet Precarious

Ezra Mendelsohn

“Fantasy” and “Reality” in Modern Antisemitism

Ezra Mendelsohn

Imaginary Jews and Jewish Imagination

Ezra Mendelsohn

American Antisemitism, Black/Jewish Relations: A Matter of Perspective

Ezra Mendelsohn

Book Reviews

Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide

Ezra Mendelsohn

History and the Social Sciences

Ezra Mendelsohn

Language, Literature and the Arts

Ezra Mendelsohn

Religion, Thought and Education

Ezra Mendelsohn

Zionism, Israel and the Middle East

Ezra Mendelsohn

End Matter

Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations

Obituaries

Studies In Contemporary Jewry XIII

Note On Editorial Policy