The publication of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and…
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Prof. Bernard Avishai
Yale University Press, April 2012
ISBN: 9780300178111
Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 gave rise to a series of rich, diverse diasporas that were interconnected through a common vision and joie de vivre. The exodus took these Sephardim to…
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Ilan Stavans
Knopf Group E-Books, February 2010
ISBN: 9780307490537
Fiction, Anthologies
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This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally…
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Leonid Livak
Stanford University Press, September 2010
ISBN: 9780804775625
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Journeys Beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated…
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Leah V. Garrett
University of Wisconsin Press, March 2003
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Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even…
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Steven J. Zipperstein
Yale University Press, April 2009
ISBN: 9780300156287
Biography & Memoir, Literary
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The chapters of this volume were almost all spoken addresses. The author has not now changed their character as such, for it seemed to him that to convert them into formal essays would be to rob them…
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Israel Abrahams
EbooksLib, October 2004
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The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and…
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Cordeiro Rosa, Debora
Lexington Books, April 2012
ISBN: 80739172988
Literary Theory & Criticism, Central & South American
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In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century…
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Marc Caplan
Stanford University Press, September 2011
ISBN: 9780804782555
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying…
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Dan Miron
Stanford University Press, July 2010
ISBN: 9780804775021
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means…
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