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Modern Jewish Literatures - Intersections and Boundaries (Hardcover)
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Modern Jewish Literatures - Intersections and Boundaries (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While
definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted.
Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national
literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared
language-though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly
included-and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained
within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen
essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above
question by describing a movement across boundaries-between
languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish
are amply represented, but works in English, French, German,
Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from
the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian
poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish
journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the
intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the
shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The
literary world described in Modern Jewish Literatures is demarcated
chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French
Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State
of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter
between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied
greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by
social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of
these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural
history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and
writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and
represent Jewish experience in the modern world.
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