Israeli Humor

Elliott Oring

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Derived from the Arabic word for "lie," the word "chizbat" was chosen by members of the Palmah to designate the particular form of narrative joke exch... Lees meer

Imagining Each Other

Ethan Goffman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Explores the complex ways in which Blacks and Jews have portrayed each other in recent American literature. Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish... Lees meer

Passionate Women, Passive Men

Janet Hadda

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Suicide is always a controversial issue. Among Jews, it is often taboo. Stereotypically, Jews do not commit suicide; certainly, they do not discuss it... Lees meer

Not One of Them in Place

Norman Finkelstein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity. Not One of Them in Place is the first book t... Lees meer

Over the Rooftops of Time

Myra Sklarew

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory. In this collection of essays, stories, and poems, award-winning poet an... Lees meer

Joining the Sisterhood

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today. Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious... Lees meer

American Talmud

Ezra Cappell

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture. In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish... Lees meer

They Made Their Souls Anew

André Neher

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditiona... Lees meer

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah. Challenging the notion that Jewish American... Lees meer

Children of Job

Alan L Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• An original contribution to Holocaust studies that demonstrates the theological and psychosocial issues emerging in novels and films by sons and daugh... Lees meer

Tradition and Innovation

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• This book studies the rich repository of Latin American Jewish literature, exploring the issues of vanishing traditions along with the subject of assi... Lees meer

Summoning

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as develo... Lees meer

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination

Andrew Furman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Examines eight Jewish-American writers--Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich--wh... Lees meer

Somber Lust

Yair Mazor

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• A comprehensive study of Israel's most internationally celebrated writer. In Somber Lust, Yair Mazor examines the work of the celebrated Israeli write... Lees meer

A Spiritual Life

Merle Feld

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as... Lees meer

Philip Roth and the Jews

Alan Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewis... Lees meer

New Jewish Voices

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• New Jewish Voices presents the first anthology of modern Jewish-American drama. These highly acclaimed plays, previously produced by New York City's n... Lees meer

Beyond Marginality

Efraim Sicher

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• In a unique study of Anglo-Jewish writers in the post-war period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community ... Lees meer

The Slayers of Moses

Susan a Handelman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures o... Lees meer

Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creation

Gila Safran Naveh

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way ... Lees meer

Israeli Mythogynies

Esther Fuchs

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• This book is the first to systematically examine the representation of women by mainstream Hebrew authors from the Palmah Generation to the New Wave. ... Lees meer

Shattered Vessels

Michal Peled Ginsburg, Moshe Ron

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar. David Shahar (1926-1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered... Lees meer

Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature. By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American ... Lees meer

A Spiritual Life

Merle Feld

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers' guide with questions for writing and discussion groups. The revised edition of this beloved c... Lees meer