The Modern Jewish Canon
A Journey Through Language and Culture
by Ruth R. Wisse
"In The Modern Jewish Canon, Wisse takes us on a journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the twentieth century, from Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick.
The modern Jewish canon Wisse proposes comprises those books that convey an experience of Jewish actuality, those in which "the authors or characters know and let the reader know that they are Jews," for better or worse."--BOOK JACKET.
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Sovremennyï evreïskiï literaturnyï kanon: puteshestvie po i︠a︡zykam i stranam
2008, Mosty kul'tury
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The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture
April 15, 2003, University Of Chicago Press
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The modern Jewish canon: a journey through language and culture
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