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9780520206458

Booking Passage

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520206458

  • ISBN10:

    0520206452

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This study looks at the poetics of "exile and return" in Jewish literature.

Author Biography

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: A Poetics of Exile and Return 3(30)
PART ONE. JEWISH JOURNEYS
The Poetics of Pilgrimage: Yehuda Halevi and the Uncompleted Journey
33(19)
Lost in Space: S.Y. Abramovitsh and the Skeptical Voyage
52(29)
In the Heart of the Seas: S.Y. Agnon and the Epic of Return
81(22)
By Train, by Ship, by Subway: Sholem Aleichem and the American Voyage of Self-Invention
103(38)
PART TWO. JEWISH GEOGRAPHIES
Writing Poetry after Auschwitz: Paul Celan as the Last Barbarian
141(16)
Reclaiming a Plot in Radautz: Dan Pagis and the Prosaics of Memory
157(22)
Between Bukovina and Jerusalem: Aharon Appelfeld and Pilgrimage to the Ruined Shrine
179(21)
(Re)Imagining Europe: The Anachronistic Tales of I.B. Singer
200(21)
The Grapes of Roth: Diasporism from Portnoy to Shylock
221(22)
Conclusion: The Imagination of Return and the Return of Imagination
234(9)
Epilogue 243(2)
Notes 245(76)
Bibliography 321(26)
Index 347

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