The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual
and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the
centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish
literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan
Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature.
Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish
literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions
possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal
the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia
Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe,
Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz,
Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature
spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets
and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish
writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement' in Eastern Europe),
to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States
and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of
horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the
creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of
Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at
the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction
to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly
changing and adapting.
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