Modern Jewish Literatures

Intersections and Boundaries. Edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer and L. Scott Lerner.

Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? Each of the fifteen essays takes on the question by describing a movement across boundaries-between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. With contributions by Liliane Weissberg, L. Scott Lerner, Amelia Glaser et al. VIII,360 Seiten mit 9 Abb., gebunden (Jewish Culture and Contexts/University of Pennsylvania Press 2011) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed