Jewish Literature And History

by Adler, Eliyana R.; Jelen, Sheila E.

• ISBN13: 9781934309131
• ISBN10: 1934309133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Capital Decisions Ltd

Table of Contents

Literature and History: Textual Symbioses in Modern Jewish Studies	p. 1
Yiddish Storytelling and the Politics of Rescue	p. 15
What's in a Ghost Story? Some Preliminary Considerations on History and Allegory in Jewish Literature	p. 33
From the Shtetl With Love: An Episode in Ukrainian-Jewish Literary History	p. 63
Choices: Language and Genre in the Works of Dramatist Peretz Hirschbein	p. 99
Letter into Text: Epistolarity, History, and Literature	p. 113
Writing Obituaries and Declaring Life: Jewish Self-Assertion in a New York Russian-Language Newspaper	p. 135
The Beginning of Poetry in Eretz Israel	p. 153
The Case of the Missing Representation: Abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall Riots in Palestine	p. 177
Speakerly Texts and Historical Realities: Mendele's Relationship to the Revival of Hebrew Speech	p. 207
Textual Equivalence/Ethnic Difference: Translation Narratives in Antiquity	p. 223
Index	p. 241
Contributors	p. 247
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