Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon - Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse (Hardcover)

Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book "The Modern Jewish Canon" (2000) and explore an array of topics that touch on aspects of Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature. "Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon" brings together writers both seasoned and young, from both within and beyond the academy, to reflect the diversity of Wisse's areas of expertise and reading audiences. The volume also includes a translation of one of the first modern texts on the question of Jewish literature, penned in 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Wisse's scholarship. In its richness and heft, "Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon" itself constitutes an important scholarly achievement in the field of modern Jewish literature.

General

Imprint:	Harvard Center For Jewish Studies
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Justin Daniel Cammy • Dara Horn • Alyssa Quint • Rachel Rubinstein
Contributors:	David Aberbach • Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska • Edward Alexander • Marion Aptroot • Emily Miller Budick • Beatrice Lang Caplan
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	750
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-02585-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	0-674-02585-7
Barcode:	9780674025851

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