Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / / edited by Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav.

• Superior document: Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Norich, Anita, 1952-; Eliav, Yaron Z.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349.
• Physical Description: xi, 260 p.
• Notes: "Most of the essays ... emerged from a conference held at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies"-- Introduction.

Table of Contents

Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / Anita Norich -- From continuity to contiguity : thoughts on the theory of Jewish literature / Dan Miron -- Beyond influence : toward a new historiographic paradigm / Michael L. Satlow -- Hellenistic Judaism : myth or reality? / Gabriele Boccaccini -- "He was renowned to the ends of the earth" (1 Maccabees 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees / Martha Himmelfarb -- Roman statues, rabbis, and Greco-Roman culture / Yaron Z. Eliav -- The ghetto and Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe : towards a new interpretation / David Ruderman -- Hybrid with what? : the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture : their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman -- Idols of the cave and theater : a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman P. Bland -- "Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran -- Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Brooklyn am Rhein? : the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson -- Diaspora and translation : the migrations of Jewish meaning / Naomi Seidman.