ISBN:
9781946527165
,
1946527165
,
9781946527622
,
1946527629
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
Brown Judaic studies 334
DDC:
809/.88924
Keywords:
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Criticism and interpretation
;
Band, Arnold J
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature History and criticism
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
Abstract:
Preface /David C. Jacobson --Two views of Arnold Band /Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar --Reflections on Arnold Band, scholar, teacher, mentor /William Cutter --Dor Dor Vedorshav :of fathers and sons /Michael A. Signer --Part I : Classical Jewish texts and modern interpreters ;Two literary Talmudic readings /David M. Gordis --Sefer Ha'aggadah :Triumph or tragedy? /Alan Mintz --Scroll of fire : an interpretation /Ezra Spicehandler --Rabbi Nahman's third beggar /Joseph Dan --Parallel worlds : Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh /David Ellenson --Third guide for the perpelxed? Simon Rawidowicz "On Interpretation" /David N. Myers --Part II : S.Y. Agnon ;S.Y. Agnon's "From foe to friend" : Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor /Dan Almagor --Is Tehillah worthy of her praise? /Risa Domb --Religious ecstasy, erotic turmoil, and Christian innuendoes in S.Y. Agnon's "Haneshiqah Harishonah" ("First Kiss") /Dalia Dromi --Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon's Shira /Nancy Ezer --Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa : a hallucinatory vision in S.Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom /Avraham Holtz --Childish distortions of rabbinic texts in S.Y. Agnon's "Hamitpahat" /David C. Jacobson --What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death" /Malka Shaked --Agnon from a medieval perspective /David Stern --
Abstract:
Part III : Diaspora ;Wealthy Señor Miguel : a study of a Sephardic novella /Tamar Alexander --Imagined Jew :Heinrich Heine's "prinzessin Sabbath" /Michael A. Meyer --Way of the "Wail of the Wind" : Peretz Smolenskin's latent, worthy Ars Poetica /Yair Mazor --Assonance and its share in Irony : comments on Sefer Haqabtasanim /David Patterson --Three Kalikes : a comparative study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis /Gershon Shaked --Some crosscurrents of linguistic nationalism : M.Y. Berdyczewski on the centrality of Hebrew /William Cutter --Bialik's "Tsafririm" : Innocnece and experience /Glenda Abramson --Death in a furnished room : Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's obituaries /Steven J. Zipperstein --Philip Roth, Jewish identity, and the satire of modern success /Murray Baumgarten --Part IV : Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel ;Rachel and the female voice : Labor, gender, and the Zionist pioneer vision /Yael Zerubavel --Revising the past : the image of the idyllic "village" /Gabriella Moscati Steindler --Why did the river turn red? On the story "Orsha" by Gershon Schofmann /Avner Holtzman --Prayer of homecoming by Abraham sutzkever /Ruth R. Wisse --Kernel /Aharon Appelfeld --Who is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's novel To Remember, To Forget /Nurith Gertz --Rereading Dan Pagis' "Abba" /Robert K. Baruch --What learning is most worth? /Walter Ackerman --Aharon Megged's "Burden" in his portrayals of the effects of Israel's wars /Stanley Nash --Shading the truth : A.B. Yehoshua's "Facing the Forests" /Gilead Morahg --Political mothers : Women's voice and the binding of Isaac in Israeli poetry /Ruth Kartun-Blum --Zionist dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's "A Cow Named Virginia" /Naomi Sokoloff --Between Genesis and Sophocles : Biblical psychopolitics in A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani /Yael S. Feldman --Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days : a poetic dialogue /Nili Rachel Scharf Gold --Frigid option : a psychocultural study of the novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev /Yigal Schwartz.
