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

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

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

Classic Yiddish Fiction

Ken Frieden

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• Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never befor... 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

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

Tradition and Innovation

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• Robert DiAntonio is in the Department of Foreign Languages at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Nora Glickman is Professor in the Departme... Lees meer

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination

Andrew Furman

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• CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship b... 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

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

Summoning

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• Ellen Spolsky is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research. 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

New Jewish Voices

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• Edward M. Cohen associate director of the Jewish Repertory Theatre, has directed and produced plays for more than 10 years. A recipient of a National ... 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

Philip Roth and the Jews

Alan Cooper

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• Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the... 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

The Ritual of New Creation

Norman Finkelstein

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• Finkelstein examines a wide range of recent Jewish writing, including poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, in order to determine the changes such ... 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

Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creation

Gila Safran Naveh

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• Gila Safran Naveh is Professor of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Lees meer

Israeli Mythogynies

Esther Fuchs

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• Esther Fuchs is Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Arizona, Tuscon. 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