{"product_id":"modern-jewish-literatures-9780812242720","title":"Modern Jewish Literatures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —David B. Ruderman\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study\u003cbr\u003e —Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited\u003cbr\u003e —Liliane Weissberg\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained\u003cbr\u003e —L. Scott Lerner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy\u003cbr\u003e —Amelia Glaser\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy\/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity\u003cbr\u003e —Olga Borovaya\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's \"Between Two Mountains\": Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity\u003cbr\u003e —Nicham Ross\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories\u003cbr\u003e —Marc Caplan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish\u003cbr\u003e —Anita Shapira\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry\u003cbr\u003e —Alan Mintz\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries\u003cbr\u003e —Kathryn Hellerstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e —Sheila E. Jelen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column\u003cbr\u003e —Gideon Nevo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e —Alan Rosen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore\u003cbr\u003e —Laurence Roth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e —Michael P. Kramer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History\u003cbr\u003e —Anita Norich\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405716201815,"sku":"9780812242720","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812242720.jpg?v=1730493379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-jewish-literatures-9780812242720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}