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