Jewish Fiction category: 695 books

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The Jew's Daughter

A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative

by Efraim Sicher, Noa Sophie Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

A new approach to thinking about the representation of the Other in Western society, The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative offers an insight into the gendered difference of the Jew. Focusing on a popular narrative of “The Jew’s Daughter,” which has been overlooked...
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by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

Despite the fact that scholars of the post-Talmudic era have been of great importance to the continued interpretation of religious texts for more than a millennium, they are typically not given as much attention as their Talmudic-era predecessors. Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship compiles thorough...
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The Heart Is a Mirror

The Sephardic Folktale

by Tamar Alexander-Frizer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007

Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these Sephardic groups are Judeo-Spanish folktales, stories...
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Homeless Tongues

Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora

by Monique Balbuena
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016

This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature:...
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Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature

Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492

by David A. Wacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015

The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences...
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by Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018

Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism,...
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Stumbling Into Modernity

Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition

by Greg Masters
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

Stumbling Into Modernity: 
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition takes an admiring, yet critical look at a body of literature that reflects a crossover, not only geographic, with immigration from Poland, but from traditional, tribal values treasured in the Jewish provinces of Europe and then questioned...
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by Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016

The Book of Delight and Other Papers by one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation, Israel Abrahams.Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898).
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned...
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by Austin Ratner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature “A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”-Harper’s “This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a...
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A Touch of Genius

Portraits and Literary Masterpieces

by Dvir Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

"These brilliant writers, through their works, never fail to exert their power in spadefuls, and soar to heights of grace and excellence in confronting the great existential dramas of life." In a collection of passionate, sparkling essays, one of Australia's leading literary critics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003

A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time. History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. Nothing Makes You Free considers the heritage of...
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Elie Wiesel

Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013

“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly   Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
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Red, Black, and Jew

New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature

by Stephen Katz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers....
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