Diaspora And Zionism In Jewish American Literature

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature written by Ranen Omer-Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth exploration of the work of four major writers confronting Jewish nationalism and the fate of the diaspora.

Author : Richard Siegel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634592
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer in the Jewish Community written by Richard Siegel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What defines the "Jewish" writer, and how different is the American Jewish writer from an Israeli writer? This book presents edited selections from a modern writers' conference and is a telling record of Jewish literature from the Enlightenment to the present, the Hebrew renaissance in Israel, and contemporary writing in the Diaspora.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842628X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Jewish American Literary Studies written by Victoria Aarons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814340563
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Diaspora written by Victoria Aarons and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered significant for American Jews. In The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction, editors Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner, who have all served as judges for the award, present vital, original, and wide-ranging fiction by writers whose work has been considered or selected for the award. The resulting collection highlights the exemplary place of the Wallant Award in Jewish literature. With a mix of stories and novel chapters, The New Diaspora reprints selections of short fiction from such well-known writers as Rebecca Goldstein, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dara Horn, Julie Orringer, and Nicole Krauss. The first half of the anthology presents pieces by winners of the Wallant award, focusing on the best work of recent winners. The New Diaspora’s second half reflects the evolving landscape of American Jewish fiction over the last fifty years, as many authors working in America are not American by birth, and their fiction has become more experimental in nature. Pieces in this section represent authors with roots all over the world—including Russia (Maxim Shrayer, Nadia Kalman, and Lara Vapnyar), Latvia (David Bezmozgis), South Africa (Tony Eprile), Canada (Robert Majzels), and Israel (Avner Mandelman, who now lives in Canada). This collection offers an expanded canon of Jewish writing in North America and foregrounds a vision of its variety, its uniqueness, its cosmopolitanism, and its evolving perspectives on Jewish life. It celebrates the continuing vitality and fresh visions of contemporary Jewish writing, even as it highlights its debt to history and embrace of collective memory. Readers of contemporary American fiction and Jewish cultural history will find The New Diaspora enlightening and deeply engaging.

Author : Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683629
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Diaspora Nationalism written by Simon Rabinovitch and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

Author : Emily Miller Budick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490149
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature written by Emily Miller Budick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities. The disinclination of Israeli and American Jewish fictional narratives to gravitate toward one another tells us much about the processes of Jewish self-definition as expressed in literary texts over the last fifty years. Through essays by prominent Israeli Americanists, American Hebraists, Israeli critics of Hebrew writing, and American specialists in the field of Jewish writing, the book shows how modern Jewish culture rewrites the Jewish tradition across quite different ideological imperatives, such as Zionist metanarrative, the urge of Jewish immigrants to find Israel in America, and socialism. The contributors also explore how that narrative turn away from religious tradition to secular identity has both enriched and impoverished Jewish modernity.

Author : Omri Asscher
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503610942
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Israel, Reading America written by Omri Asscher and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form—when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora? Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk—in particular, the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public intellectuals—Asscher decodes the literary encounter between Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics, Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews. Navigating the disputes between these "rival siblings" of the Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural relations between Israeli and American Jews.

Author : Melissa Weininger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814350615
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Land written by Melissa Weininger and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of the meaning and function of diaspora in contemporary Israeli culture.

Author : Aaron Kreuter
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772126578
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Other People Alone written by Aaron Kreuter and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction's unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003250012
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Although some Jews tend to look on the United States as a great twentieth- century haven and on Israel as their ancestral home, tens of thousands of Jewish migrants and refugees escaped to Latin America at three pivotal historical moments—after the late fifteenth-century expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian kingdoms, during the late nineteenth-century crisis of pogroms and famine in Eastern Europe, and at the time of the Holocaust. This multidisciplinary collection of articles explores many elements of the Jewish diaspora in Latin America and the ways in which Jews have shaped and been shaped by Latin American societies.