From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking /
Miron, Dan.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Old questions : Do they deserve new answers? -- The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy -- Modern Jewish literary thinking: the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism -- The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries -- The inter-bellum decades: Hebrew -- The inter-bellum decades: Yiddish : issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times -- Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities -- Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant -- Jewish diglossias, differential and integral -- Contiguity: Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex -- Contiguity: how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous -- Conclusion: toward a new Jewish literary thinking -- Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.
Jewish literature
Jewish literature
Hebrew literature, Modern
Yiddish literature