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Book SynopsisIs there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.
Table of ContentsPreface
—David B. Ruderman
Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study
—Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner
Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited
—Liliane Weissberg
Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained
—L. Scott Lerner
Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy
—Amelia Glaser
Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity
—Olga Borovaya
Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's "Between Two Mountains": Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity
—Nicham Ross
Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories
—Marc Caplan
Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish
—Anita Shapira
Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry
—Alan Mintz
Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries
—Kathryn Hellerstein
Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe
—Sheila E. Jelen
Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column
—Gideon Nevo
Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust
—Alan Rosen
Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore
—Laurence Roth
Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics
—Michael P. Kramer
Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History
—Anita Norich
List of Contributors
Index
