Philip Hollander: 2 books
From Schlemiel to Sabra
Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Philip Hollander is a new voice in gender and literary studies of the early years of the Yishuv, Zionist Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel.
Hollander grapples with the importance of images of potent masculinity in the foundation of the state and advancement of...
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...