The polyphony of Jewish culture
By: Benjamin Harshav.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780804755122
Subjects: Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Yiddish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jews -- Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theses on the historical context of the modern Jewish revolution; title: Multilingualism; title: The crisis of Jewish identity : S.Y. Agnon's only yesterday; title: American poetry in Yiddish and its background; title: The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania; title: Art and poetry; title: On the beginnings of Israeli poetry and Yehuda Amichai's quatrains : a memoir; title: The modern Hebrew poem itself : Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner; title: The role of language in Chagall's early paintings; title: A. Sutzkever : life and poetry; title: Note on the systems of Hebrew versification : Bible to present.