Jewish literatures and cultures
Subtitle: context and intertext
By: edited by Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav.
Contributors: Norich, Anita, 1952-; Eliav, Yaron Z.
Series: Brown Judaic studies -- no. 350
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Providence, RI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781930675551
Subjects: Judaism -- 20th century -- Congresses; Judaism and culture -- Congresses; Religion and culture -- Congresses; Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- -- Congresses; Secularism -- Congresses; Jews -- Identity -- Congresses; Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Most of the essays ... emerged from a conference held at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies"-- Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish literatures and cultures: context and intertext / Anita Norich; title: From continuity to contiguity: thoughts on the theory of Jewish literature / Dan Miron; title: Beyond influence: toward a new historiographic paradigm / Michael Satlow; title: Hellenistic Judaism: myth or reality? / Gabriele Boccaccini; title: He was renowned to the ends of the earth (1Macc. 3:9): Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees / Martha Himmelfarb; title: Roman statues, rabbis, and Greco-Roman culture / Yaron Z. Eliav; title: The ghetto and Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe: towards a new interpretation / David Ruderman; title: Hybrid with what?: the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture: their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman; title: Idols of the cave and theater: a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman Bland; title: On "sympathizers" and "reverse marranos": secular Jewish literature and the language question / Gabriella Safran; title: Rabbinic literature, intertextuality, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker; title: Brooklyn am Rhein?: the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson; title: Jewish translations: diaspora and the migration of meaning / Naomi Seidman.