Jewish literature and history
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary conversation
By: edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen.
Contributors: Adler, Eliyana R.; Jelen, Sheila E.
Series: Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture -- 15
Publisher: University Press of Maryland; Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781934309131
Subjects: Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Hebrew literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature and history: textual symbioses in modern Jewish studies / Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen; title: Yiddish storytelling and the politics of rescue / David G. Roskies; title: What's in a ghost story?: some preliminary considerations on history and allegory in Jewish literature / Jeremy Dauber; title: From the shtetl with love: an episode in Ukrainian-Jewish literary history / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern; title: Choices: language and genre in the works of dramatist Peretz Hirschbein / Miriam Isaacs; title: Letter into text: epistolarity, history, and literature / Elisheva Carlebach; title: Writing obituaries and declaring life: Jewish self-assertion in a New York Russian-language newspaper / Alice Nakhimovsky; title: The beginning of poetry in Eretz Israel / Hannan Hever; title: The case of the missing representation: abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Palestine / Eric Zakim; title: Speakerly texts and historical realities: Mendele's relationship to the revival of Hebrew speech / Sheila E. Jelen; title: Textual equivalence / ethnic difference: translation narratives in antiquity /; title: Naomi Seidman.