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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and
Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book
explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which
writers intentionally highlight and perform their connections with
other writers. Starting with Philip Roth as an entry point and
recurring example, David Hadar reveals a larger network of authors
involved in formations of Jewish American literary identity,
including among others Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Nicole Krauss,
and Nathan Englander. He also shows how Israeli writers such as
Sayed Kashua perform their own identities through connections to
Jewish Americans. Whether by incorporating other writers into
fictional work as characters, interviewing them, publishing
critical essays about them, or invoking them in paratext or
publicity, writers use a variety of methods to forge public
personas, craft their own identities as artists, and infuse their
art with meaningful cultural associations. Hadar's analysis deepens
our understanding of Jewish American and Israeli literature,
positioning them in decentered relation with one another as well as
with European writing. The result is a thought-provoking challenge
to the concept of homeland that recasts each of these literary
traditions as diasporic and questions the oft-assumed centrality of
Hebrew and Yiddish to global Jewish literature. In the process,
Hadar offers an approach to studying authorial identity-building
relevant beyond the field of Jewish literature.
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My Three Successful Escapes
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Antonin Moťovič; Translated by George Jiři Grosman; Cover design or artwork by Jan R Fine
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The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew
manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a
million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed
around the world, before becoming collectively known as "The Cairo
Genizah," is far more convoluted and compelling than previously
told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars,
librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and
agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth
century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in
a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival
materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their
various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails,
each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in
their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into
ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden
attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks,
and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges.
Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of
establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact
to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.
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