Alan Mintz: 2 books
Ancestral Tales
Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....