History and Literature New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band
This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed ar...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Brown Judaic Studies
2020
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| Edición: | Second edition |
| Colección: | Brown Judaic studies;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422353306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters
- Part II: S. Y. Agnon
- Part III: Diaspora
- Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel.
- Two Literary Talmudic Readings
- Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?
- “The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation
- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar
- Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh
- A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation”
- S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor
- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise?
- Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”)
- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira
- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom
- Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat”
- What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death”
- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective
- “The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella
- The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath”
- The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica
- Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim
- Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis
- Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew
- Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience
- Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries
- Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success
- Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision
- Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village”
- Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann
- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever
- The Kernel
- Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget
- Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba”
- What Learning Is Most Worth?
- Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars
- Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests”
- Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry
- Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia”
- Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani
- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue
- The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.
