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  • Dreaming of Michelangelo

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    Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became ... Leer más

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    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

    In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished ... Leer más

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  • The Zionist Paradox

    Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity

    Traducido por Michal Sapir ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of ... Leer más

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  • Imagining the Kibbutz

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    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Leer más

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  • Bloody Mary

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    **A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this “**fresh and riveting” novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).Taking its title from the childhood game of conjuring dread, Pushcart Prize-winner Sharon Solwitz delivers a harrowing, razor-sharp satire of navigating the sexual, emotional, and spiritual calamities of modern life.Claire Winger lives in an ... Leer más

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  • The Beginnings of Ladino Literature

    Moses Almosnino and His Readers

    de Olga Borovaya ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    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 similar to contemporaneous Castilian, Olga Borovaya makes a strong argument for including them in the ... Leer más

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  • Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction

    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

    Edición de Sorrel Kerbel ...
    Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume:examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writersincludes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold ... Leer más

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  • An Ode to Salonika

    The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty

    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures

    Edición de Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary ... Leer más

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  • The End of the Holocaust

    "An illuminating exploration that offers a worried look at Holocaust representation in contemporary culture and politics." — H-HolocaustIn this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its ... Leer más

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  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers

    Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

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    "Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship." — Jewish Book WorldOld Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish ... Leer más

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