Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 12)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780520206458
Subjects: Jewish studies; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Zionism in literature; Jewish literature; Hamito-Semitic Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hebrew; Literature: Classics; Jewish; Social Science / Jewish Studies; History and criticism; General; In Literature; Jewish diaspora in literature; Palestine
First sentence: Jewish journeys originate either in the biblical myths of punishment or quest or in the historic memories and legends of the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem.