History and Literature : New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band /

History and Literature : New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band / / William Cutter, David C. Jacobson.

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This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed ar...

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Brown University.
TeilnehmendeR:
Jacobson, David C.,
Cutter, William,
Brown University.
Place / Publishing House:Providence : : Brown Judaic Studies,, 2020.
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:Second edition.
Language:English
Hebrew
Series:Brown Judaic studies; 334
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 506 p. ); Grayscale Illustration, Tables
Notes:The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters
  • Part II: S. Y. Agnon
  • Part III: Diaspora
  • Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel.
  • Two Literary Talmudic Readings
  • Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?
  • “The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation
  • Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar
  • Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh
  • A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation”
  • S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor
  • Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise?
  • Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”)
  • Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira
  • Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom
  • Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat”
  • What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death”
  • Agnon from a Medieval Perspective
  • “The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella
  • The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath”
  • The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica
  • Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim
  • Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis
  • Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew
  • Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience
  • Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries
  • Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success
  • Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision
  • Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village”
  • Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann
  • A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever
  • The Kernel
  • Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget
  • Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba”
  • What Learning Is Most Worth?
  • Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars
  • Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests”
  • Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry
  • Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia”
  • Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani
  • Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue
  • The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.

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