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Title Jewish literature and history : an interdisciplinary conversation / edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen.
Contributors Adler, Eliyana R.
Jelen, Sheila E.
Publisher Bethesda, Md : University Press of Maryland
Creation Date c2008
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.
Content Literature and history: textual symbioses in modern Jewish studies / Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen -- Yiddish storytelling and the politics of rescue / David G. Roskies -- What's in a ghost story?: some preliminary considerations on history and allegory in Jewish literature / Jeremy Dauber -- From the shtetl with love: an episode in Ukrainian-Jewish literary history / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern -- Choices: language and genre in the works of dramatist Peretz Hirschbein / Miriam Isaacs -- Letter into text: epistolarity, history, and literature / Elisheva Carlebach -- Writing obituaries and declaring life: Jewish self-assertion in a New York Russian-language newspaper / Alice Nakhimovsky -- The beginning of poetry in Eretz Israel / Hannan Hever -- The case of the missing representation: abstraction, Orientalism, and the 1929 Wailing Wall riots in Palestine / Eric Zakim -- Speakerly texts and historical realities: Mendele's relationship to the revival of Hebrew speech / Sheila E. Jelen -- Textual equivalence / ethnic difference: translation narratives in antiquity / -- Naomi Seidman.
Series Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture
15
Extent ix, 248 pages : ill., maps
25 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990026653810205171

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