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The Blessing and the Curse - The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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The Blessing and the Curse - The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500
years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert
Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam
Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the
vast emigration of Jews out of Eastern Europe to the Holocaust to
the creation of Israel, the twentieth century transformed Jewish
life. The same was true of Jewish writing: the novels, plays,
poems, and memoirs of Jewish writers provided intimate access to
new worlds of experience. Kirsch surveys four themes that shaped
the twentieth century in Jewish literature and culture: Europe,
America, Israel, and the endeavor to reimagine Judaism as a modern
faith. With discussions of major books by over thirty
writers-ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Elie Wiesel to
Tony Kushner, Hannah Arendt to Judith Plaskow-he argues that
literature offers a new way to think about what it means to be
Jewish in the modern world. With a wide scope and diverse, original
observations, Kirsch draws fascinating parallels between familiar
writers and their less familiar counterparts. While everyone knows
the diary of Anne Frank, for example, few outside of Israel have
read the diary of Hannah Senesh. Kirsch sheds new light on the
literature of the Holocaust through the work of Primo Levi,
explores the emergence of America as a Jewish home through the
stories of Bernard Malamud, and shows how Yehuda Amichai captured
the paradoxes of Israeli identity. An insightful and engaging work
from "one of America's finest literary critics" (Wall Street
Journal), The Blessing and the Curse brings the Jewish experience
vividly to life.
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