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The Schlemiel as Modern Hero
Author | : Ruth R. Wisse |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 0226903125 |
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The Schlemiel as Modern Hero
Author | : Ruth R. Wisse |
Publsiher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226903117 |
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Analyzes the development and changing forms of the prototypal innocent through Jewish literature and contemporary works by Jewish authors
From Schlemiel to Sabra
Author | : Philip Hollander |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253042071 |
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“Convincingly demonstrates the role of gender and sexuality in forming the Israeli state and . . . the place of literature as a force in politics.” —Choice In From Schlemiel to Sabra, Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating narratives depicting masculinity in the new state as a transition from weak, feminized schlemiels to robust, muscular, and rugged Israelis. Turning to key literary texts by S.Y. Agnon, Y.H. Brenner, L.A. Arieli, and Aharon Reuveni, Hollander reveals how gender and sexuality were intertwined to promote a specific Zionist political agenda. A Zionist masculinity grounded in military prowess could not only protect the new state but also ensure its procreative needs and future. Self-awareness, physical power, fierce loyalty to the state and devotion to the land, humility, and nurture of the young were essential qualities that needed to be cultivated in migrants to the state. By turning to the early literature of Zionist Palestine, Hollander shows how Jews strove to construct a better Jewish future.
No Joke
Author | : Ruth R. Wisse |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780691165813 |
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"Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience"--
Pioneers
Author | : S. An-sky |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780815654049 |
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When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town quickly become divided, with some regarding Itzkowitz as the devil’s messenger and others supportive of his progressive ideas. Set during the time of the Haskalah, the great Jewish Enlightenment that was sweeping through Europe, Pioneers is a charming tale of one ambivalent young man’s attempt to join the movement and a compassionate portrait of one shtetl on the brink of transformation.
The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature
Author | : M. Roston |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2001-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230597174 |
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The scientific achievements of the modern world failed to impress the leading writers of this century, leaving them instead profoundly disturbed by a sense of lost values and of the insignificance of the individual in a universe seemingly indifferent to human concerns. In The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature Roston explores the strategies adopted by such mid-century authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity - strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism - and offer in the course of the investigation fascinatingly new insights into their work.
Writing in Tongues
Author | : Anita Norich |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295804958 |
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Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.
The Anti Hero in the American Novel
Author | : D. Simmons |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230612525 |
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.