Author: Dov Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429721153
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The dawning of the nineteenth century found the Jews of Eastern Europe torn between the forces of progress and reaction as they took their first tentative steps toward the modern world. In a war of words and of books, Haskaia–the Jewish Enlightenment–did battle with the religious revival movement known as Hasidism. Perl, an ardent advocate of Enlightenment, unleashed the opening salvo with the publication in 1819 of Revealer of Secrets. The novel tried to pass itself off as a hasidic holy book when it was, in fact, a broadside against Hasidism–a parody of its teachings and of the language of its holy books. The outraged hasidim responded by buying up and burning as many copies as they could. Dov Taylor's careful translation and commentary make this classic of Hebrew literature available and accessible to the contemporary English-speaking reader while preserving the integrity and bite of Perl's original. With Hasidism presently enjoying a remarkable rebirth, the issues in Revealer of Secrets are all the more relevant to those seeking to balance reason and faith. As the first Hebrew novel, the work will also be of great interest to students of modern Hebrew literature and modern Jewish history.
Author: Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691121529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Jeremy Dauber
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804767270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The Merchant of Venice. By examining the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, the book focuses attention on the magnificent and highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their polemical and ideological goals. Dauber uses this methodology to examine foundational texts by some of the Jewish Enlightenment's most interesting and important authors, reaching new and often surprising conclusions.
Author: David Assaf
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168305X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Reveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism
Author: Michael P. Kramer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521559027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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A collection of essays, first published in 1999, on Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: Steven T. Katz
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814748317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series.
Author: Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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A selection of 15 papers from the October 1996 gathering of the annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska. The topics include anger and homecoming in 20th-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture and urban landscape in interwar Vilna, the Yiddish theater in Omaha from 1919 to 1969, and the metamorphosis of the matriarchs in modern Yiddish poetry. No index. Distributed in the US by Fordham University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Gerhard Bach
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The editors have collected essays that examine Bellow's sharp wit, precise description, unforgettable portraits, and finely crafted dialogue that remind us of the fiction of sensibility and character portraiture of James and Hawthorne.
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Category : Yiddish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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