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Yiddish language, History and criticism, Jewish authors, Jews in literature, Jewish literature, Hebrew literature, Modern Literature, Judaism and literature, Canon (Literature), Hebrew language, Canon (literature), Jewish literature, history and criticism, Literature, modern, history and criticism

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Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies)
February 15, 2008, Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
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Table of Contents

Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin
Knocking on heaven's gate: Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz
Holocaust literature: foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach
Of Jews and canons: further thoughts / Ilan Stavans
A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn
Judging the judgment of Shomer, or arguing the borders of the modern Jewish canon / Justin Cammy
The judgment of Shomer / Sholem Aleichem
Daniel Deronda: the Zionist fate in English hands, and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander
The pleasure of disregarding red lights: a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" (burned out) / Dan Miron
The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich
The open suitcases: Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven Yash Iz Gekumen / Avraham Novershtern
Seductions and disputations: pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert
Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies
Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "androgynous" / Suzanne Klingenstein
Building bridges destined to fall: biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The Ice Mine / Philip Hollander
Life/writing: Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff
Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher
The modern hero as schlemiel: the Swede in Philip Roth's American Pastoral / Michael Kimmage
Innovation by translation: Yiddish as a dybbuk in Hebrew literary history / Ken Frieden
Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot
The smoke of civilization: the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di Klyatshe / Marc Caplan
Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick
Joyce's Yiddish: modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein
The transmission of poetic anger: an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda
Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing: the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick
What's so funny about the Yiddish theater?: comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber
Naked truths: Avraham Goldfaden's Der Fanatik, oder, Di Tsvey Kuni Lemlekh / Alyssa Quint
Memory of metaphor: Meir Wiener's novel Kolev Ashkenazi as critique of the Jewish historical imagination / Mikhail Krutikov
Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye: at the limits of orthodox literature / Beatrice Lang Caplan
Chava Rosenfarb and the tree of life / Goldie Morgentaler
Fiddles on willow trees: the missing Polish link in the Jewish canon / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
The Kvetcher in the rye: J D Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon / Leah garrett
Israeli identity in a post-Zionist age / Yaron Peleg
Bellow's canon / Jonathan Rosen
The Eicha problem / Dara Horn
The great explainer / Cynthia Ozick.

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809/.88924
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PN842 .A74 2008

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OL19887087M
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9780674025851
LCCN
2007047941
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