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Literary Passports is the first book to explore Hebrew modernist fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Title Literary passports [electronic resource] : the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / Shachar M. Pinsker.
Publisher Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Creation Date c2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Spatializing the margins : Hebrew modernism and the urban experience -- Odessa and Warsaw : a tale of two centers? -- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.
Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Extent 1 online resource (504 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712574205171
MARC RECORDS
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