{"product_id":"antonios-devils-9780804749015","title":"Antonios Devils","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author examines the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, focusing on the highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their potential and ideological goals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating new study of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature is not only an excellent academic piece of work, but an accessible and compelling read.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book not only offers an overview of the early poetic, linguistic, and social challenges of Yiddish and Hebrew literature; it invites the reader to examine the varied contexts of the Jewish Enlightenment as a means of better understanding Modern Jewish Culture.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHebrew Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dauber has produced a first-rate book, at once interesting and eminently readable, and both historians and students of Jewish literature will learn much. Given that this is a first book from a young scholar, \u003ci\u003eAntonio's Devils\u003c\/i\u003e is a most impressive offering, one that would elicit from his maskilic protagonists the hope that he produce books without limit.\" -- SHOFAR\u003cbr\u003e\"Dauber's textual exegesis is often very instructive.\"\u003ci\u003eJewish History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  Note on Orthography\tiii  List of Abbreviations\tiii  @toc1:Part One Setting the Stage  @toc2:1. Antonio's Devil: Shylock, Allusion, and the Birth   of Modern Jewish Literature\t000  2. Allusion in a Jewish Key: Literary Theory and the Study   of Haskala Literature\t000  3. Historical Background\t000  @toc3:I. The early Prussian Haskala (to the mid-1780s):   Moses Mendelssohn  II. Toward the 1790s: Radicalization, assimilation, and   Wolfssohn  III. Early 19th century Galicia: Joseph Perl  @toc1:Part Two Prussia  @toc2:4. Moses Mendelssohn\t000  @toc3:I. Introduction  II. Biographical and social notes  III. The early years: the Philosophical Writings and Kohelet   Musar  IV. Brief notes on the middle years  V. Jerusalem  VI. Conclusion  @toc2:5. Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn\t000  @toc3:I. Introduction  II. Wolfssohn's life and work  III.Wolfssohn's new theater and writing in Yiddish  IV. Laykhtzin un fremelay: a theoretical and textual   introduction  V. The characters  VI. Conclusion  @toc1:Part Three Galicia  @toc2:6. Joseph Perl: Between Hebrew and Yiddish\t000  @toc3:I. Introduction  II. Perl: A brief biography  III. Perl's literary work: details and Jewish influences  IV. Hasidic literature and Perl's Hasidic parodies  V. Rabbi Nachman's Sipurei Maasiyot and Perl's parodic Tales   and Letters  VI. Perl's Tales and Letters: The frame letters  VII. Perl's Tales and Letters: The \"completion\" of \"The Tale   of the Loss of the Princess\"  VIII. Perl's own parodic tale: \"The Tale of the Loss of the   Prince\"  @toc2:7. Joseph Perl: Megale Temirin\t000  @toc3:I. Introduction: The Shivkhei HaBesht  II. Formal and historical details: the making of Megale   Temirin  III. Megale Temirin: the anti-Shivkhei HaBesht  IV. Style: textual citation in Megale Temirin  V. Hebrew and Yiddish versions of Megale Temirin  VI. The battle of the books: dueling canons  VII. The texts themselves: referentiality and   transferability  VIII. The texts themselves: non-transferred material  IX: The texts themselves: transferred material  VIII. Conclusion  @toc1:Part Four Coda  @toc2:Conclusion and Further Directions for Study\t000  @toc4:Bibliography\t000  Index\t000        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Jewish literature History and criticism, Haskalah, Jewish authors Biography, Pearl, Joseph","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405556949335,"sku":"9780804749015","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804749015.jpg?v=1730492822","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antonios-devils-9780804749015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}