Israeli Humor

Elliott Oring

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• 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

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• Ethan Goffman is Lecturer in English at Purdue University. Lees meer

Passionate Women, Passive Men

Janet Hadda

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• 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

American Talmud

Ezra Cappell

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• Ezra Cappell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Inter-American Jewish Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Lees meer

Not One of Them in Place

Norman Finkelstein

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• Norman Finkelstein is Professor of English at Xavier University. His previous works include two volumes of poetry, Restless Messengers and Track , and... Lees meer

Over the Rooftops of Time

Myra Sklarew

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• Myra Sklarew is Professor of Literature at American University and the author of many books, including Lithuania: New and Selected Poems and The Witne... Lees meer

Joining the Sisterhood

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• Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today. Lees meer

Children of Job

Alan L Berger

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• Alan L. Berger is Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author o... Lees meer

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

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• Challenging the notion that Jewish American and Holocaust literature have exhausted their limits, this volume reexamines these closely linked traditio... Lees meer

They Made Their Souls Anew

André Neher

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• This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditiona... Lees meer

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination

Andrew Furman

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• 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

Summoning

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• 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

Tradition and Innovation

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• 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

Somber Lust

Yair Mazor

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• Yair Mazor is Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Literature and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He i... Lees meer

A Spiritual Life

Merle Feld

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• After having studied and taught at Oxford University, Dr. Sicher now teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His publications include studies i... Lees meer

The Slayers of Moses

Susan a Handelman

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• In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures o... Lees meer

Israeli Mythogynies

Esther Fuchs

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• 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

Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creation

Gila Safran Naveh

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• 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

Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature

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• Emily Miller Budick is Ann and Joseph Edelman Professor of American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of Blacks and Jews in... Lees meer

Shattered Vessels

Michal Peled Ginsburg, Moshe Ron

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• Michal Peled Ginsburg is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. ... Lees meer

A Spiritual Life

Merle Feld

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• Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers' guide with questions for writing and discussion groups. Lees meer