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Book SynopsisA collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947–2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by David Stern and an epilogue by Beverly Bailis.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
American Hebraist: An Introduction
David Stern
1. Agnon’s Childhood
2. Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Agnon Without End
4. In the Seas of Youth
5. On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon
6. Reading Haḥazanim
7. Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern
8. Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason
9. Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?
10. Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers
11. Haim Gouri at 90
12. Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature
13. Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon
14. Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question
15. Hebrew in America: A Memoir
Epilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and the
Creation of an Archive (263)
Beverly Bailis
