Jewish Fiction category: 695 books
Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary...
by Monica Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Since the end of World War II we have witnessed countless artistic responses to the Holocaust, yet we remain unable to adequately address the atrocities. While Theodor Adorno later rescinded his comments on the barbaric nature of writing poetry after Auschwitz, The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary...
by Sholom Asch, Donald Margulies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Donald Margulies offers up a vivid new adaptation of Sholom Asch’s 1906 Yiddish melodrama, reset on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the century. The original English language edition first appeared on Broadway in 1923, but was closed down and the cast arrested for its portrayal of...
by Sergio Romano
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Nei primi anni del Novecento cominciò a circolare - dapprima in Russia, poi nell'Europa occidentale e negli Stati Uniti - un libro dal titolo apparentemente neutro, I Protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion (il cui testo è qui riprodotto in appendice), che descrive in ogni particolare la strategia messa...
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, editors Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt present thirteen essays that examine the complex religious culture of early modern England. Emphasizing particularly the marginalized discourses of...
Narratives of Dissent
War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The year 1978 marked Israel's entry into Lebanon, which led to the long-term military occupation of non-sovereign territory and the long, costly war in Lebanon. In the years that followed, many Israelis found themselves alienated from the idea that their country used force only when there was no alternative,...
A Poetics of Trauma
The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel’s book, the first full-length study of Ravikovitch in English, offers...
by Jeremy Dauber
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Zur Judenfrage
Politische Emanzipation der Juden in Preußen (Die Frage von dem Verhältnis der Religion zum Staat)
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Dieses eBook: "Zur Judenfrage" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Marx widmet sich in der Schrift der Frage nach politischer und menschlicher Emanzipation, wobei wie schon in der zuvor verfassten Schrift Zur Kritik...
Spanish contemporary poetry
An anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem.
by Maxwell Bauman
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
What has to happen for an old story to become fresh and engaging again? One example of a myth that has been retold and modified is the story of creation and Fall of Man, which appears in the first three chapters of Genesis from the Old Testament. This essay looks into the different methods and tools that writers need to make a retelling of a story fresh and engaging for modern audiences.
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive...
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style...
Suddenly, the Sight of War
Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed as they became aware of...