Leonard Barkan: 3 books
Berlin for Jews
A Twenty-First-Century Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history...
by Leonard Barkan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting?...
Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson
Laureations
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary...