Arguing the modern Jewish canon
Subtitle: essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse
By: edited by Justin Cammy... [et al.].
Contributors: Cammy, Justin Daniel.; Wisse, Ruth R.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674025851
Subjects: Jewish literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Hebrew literature -- History and criticism; Hebrew language; Yiddish language; Judaism and literature; Canon (Literature); Jews in literature
Table of contents: title: Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin; title: Knocking on heaven's gate: Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz; title: Holocaust literature: foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach; title: Of Jews and canons: further thoughts / Ilan Stavans; title: A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn; title: Judging the judgment of Shomer, or arguing the borders of the modern Jewish canon / Justin Cammy; title: The judgment of Shomer / Sholem Aleichem; title: Daniel Deronda: the Zionist fate in English hands, and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander; title: The pleasure of disregarding red lights: a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" (burned out) / Dan Miron; title: The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich; title: The open suitcases: Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven Yash Iz Gekumen / Avraham Novershtern; title: Seductions and disputations: pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert; title: Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies; title: Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "androgynous" / Suzanne Klingenstein; title: Building bridges destined to fall: biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The Ice Mine / Philip Hollander; title: Life/writing: Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff; title: Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher; title: The modern hero as schlemiel: the Swede in Philip Roth's American Pastoral / Michael Kimmage; title: Innovation by translation: Yiddish as a dybbuk in Hebrew literary history / Ken Frieden; title: Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot; title: The smoke of civilization: the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di Klyatshe / Marc Caplan; title: Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick; title: Joyce's Yiddish: modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein; title: The transmission of poetic anger: an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda; title: Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing: the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick; title: What's so funny about the Yiddish theater?: comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber; title: Naked truths: Avraham Goldfaden's Der Fanatik, oder, Di Tsvey Kuni Lemlekh / Alyssa Quint; title: Memory of metaphor: Meir Wiener's novel Kolev Ashkenazi as critique of the Jewish historical imagination / Mikhail Krutikov; title: Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye: at the limits of orthodox literature / Beatrice Lang Caplan; title: Chava Rosenfarb and the tree of life / Goldie Morgentaler; title: Fiddles on willow trees: the missing Polish link in the Jewish canon / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska; title: The Kvetcher in the rye: J D Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon / Leah garrett; title: Israeli identity in a post-Zionist age / Yaron Peleg; title: Bellow's canon / Jonathan Rosen; title: The Eicha problem / Dara Horn; title: The great explainer / Cynthia Ozick.