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A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object

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Finalist for the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, sponsored by AJS

“A bold, often surprising, and luminous study that enhances our perception.”—Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville

“Original and finely instructive, this work leads us to see something new and illuminating about the very modality of literature.”—Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative

“Whether reading the poignant details of memory books and graphic novels or analyzing small magazines and visual images in modern Jewish literature, Barbara Mann offers insight into the ways publications work as cultural objects in this vivid contribution to the material history of literature.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist

“At once erudite, evocative, and intellectually exciting, this extraordinary book incites us to think in new ways about materiality and literature. This beautifully written and infinitely rewarding book resists a quick reading, demanding careful attentiveness from the first word to the last.”—Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

The Object of Jewish Literature A Material

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 13 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780300234114
      978-0300234114
      ISBN-10 0300234112
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literature: history and criticism History Social and cultural history Politics, Philosophy & Society Social groups: religious groups and communities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object

      Trade Review
      Finalist for the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, sponsored by AJS

      “A bold, often surprising, and luminous study that enhances our perception.”—Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville

      “Original and finely instructive, this work leads us to see something new and illuminating about the very modality of literature.”—Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative

      “Whether reading the poignant details of memory books and graphic novels or analyzing small magazines and visual images in modern Jewish literature, Barbara Mann offers insight into the ways publications work as cultural objects in this vivid contribution to the material history of literature.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist

      “At once erudite, evocative, and intellectually exciting, this extraordinary book incites us to think in new ways about materiality and literature. This beautifully written and infinitely rewarding book resists a quick reading, demanding careful attentiveness from the first word to the last.”—Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

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