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008 071120s2008 mau 010 0 eng
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050 00 $aPN842$b.A74 2008
082 00 $a809/.88924$222
245 00 $aArguing the modern Jewish canon :$bessays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse /$cedited by Justin Cammy... [et al.].
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0808
300 $ap. cm.
505 0 $aWriting 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.
650 0 $aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHebrew literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHebrew language.
650 0 $aYiddish language.
650 0 $aJudaism and literature.
650 0 $aCanon (Literature)
650 0 $aJews in literature.
700 1 $aCammy, Justin Daniel.
700 1 $aWisse, Ruth R.