American Hebraist : : Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature / / Alan Mintz; ed. by David Stern, Beverly Bailis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Mintz, Alan,
• MitwirkendeR: Bailis, Beverly,; Stern, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Bailis, Beverly,; Stern, David,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz’s scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs.American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction.Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- American Hebraist: An Introduction -- 1 Agnon’s Childhood -- 2 Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man -- 3 Agnon Without End -- 4 In the Seas of Youth -- 5 On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon -- 6 Reading Hahazanim -- 7 Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern -- 8 Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason -- 9 Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? -- 10 Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers -- 11 Haim Gouri at 90 -- 12 Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature -- 13 Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon -- 14 Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question -- 15 Hebrew in America: A Memoir -- Epilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and the Creation of an Archive