The anthology is a ubiquitous presence in Jewish
literature--arguably its oldest literary genre, going back to the
Bible itself, and including nearly all the canonical texts of
Judaism: the Mishnah, the Talmud, classical midrash, and the
prayerbook. In the Middle Ages, the anthology became the primary
medium in Jewish culture for recording stories, poems, and
interpretations of classical texts. In modernity, the genre is
transformed into a decisive instrument for cultural retrieval and
re-creation, especially in works of the Zionist project and in
modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. No less importantly, the
anthology has played an indispensable role in the creation of
significant fields of research in Jewish studies, including Hebrew
poetry, folklore, and popular culture. This volume is the first
book to bring together scholarly and critical essays that
investigate the anthological character of these works and what
might be called the "anthological habit" in Jewish literary
culture--the tendency and proclivity for gathering together
discrete, sometimes conflicting traditions and stories, and
preserving them side by side as though there were no difference,
conflict, or ambiguity between them. Indeed, The Anthology in
Jewish Literature is the first book to recognize this habit and
genre as one of the formative categories in Jewish literature and
to investigate its manifold roles. The seventeen essays, each of
which focuses on a specific literary work, many of them the great
classics of Jewish tradition, consider such questions as: What are
the many types of anthologies? How have anthologists, editors, even
printers of anthologies been creative shapers of Jewish tradition
and culture? What can we learn from their editorial practices? How
have politics, gender, and class figured into the making of
anthologies? What determinative role has the anthology played in
creating the Jewish canon? How has the anthology served, especially
in the modern period, to create and recreate Jewish culture. This
landmark volume will interest educated laypersons as well as
scholars in all areas of Jewish literature and culture, as well as
students of world literature and cultural studies.
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