History and literature :

History and literature : new readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band / William Cutter, David C. Jacobson ; Michael L. Satlow, managing editor. - Open access edition. - Providence : Brown Judaic Studies, 2020. - 1 online resource (545 pages) - Brown Judaic studies ; 334 . - Brown Judaic studies ; no. 334. .

"This edition is unchanged from the original."--Publishers' preface "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso

Two views of Arnold Band / Reflections on Arnold Band, scholar, teacher, mentor / Dor Dor Vedorshav : Two literary Talmudic readings / Sefer Ha'aggadah : Scroll of fire : an interpretation / Rabbi Nahman's third beggar / Parallel worlds : Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh / Third guide for the perpelxed? Simon Rawidowicz "On Interpretation" / S.Y. Agnon's "From foe to friend" : Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor / Is Tehillah worthy of her praise? / Religious ecstasy, erotic turmoil, and Christian innuendoes in S.Y. Agnon's "Haneshiqah Harishonah" ("First Kiss") / Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon's Shira / Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa : a hallucinatory vision in S.Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom / Childish distortions of rabbinic texts in S.Y. Agnon's "Hamitpahat" / What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death" / Agnon from a medieval perspective / David C. Jacobson -- Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar -- William Cutter -- Michael A. Signer -- David M. Gordis -- Alan Mintz -- Ezra Spicehandler -- Joseph Dan -- David Ellenson -- David N. Myers -- Dan Almagor -- Risa Domb -- Dalia Dromi -- Nancy Ezer -- Avraham Holtz -- David C. Jacobson -- Malka Shaked -- David Stern Preface / of fathers and sons / Part I : Classical Jewish texts and modern interpreters ; Triumph or tragedy? / Part II : S.Y. Agnon ; Wealthy Señor Miguel : a study of a Sephardic novella / Imagined Jew : Way of the "Wail of the Wind" : Peretz Smolenskin's latent, worthy Ars Poetica / Assonance and its share in Irony : comments on Sefer Haqabtasanim / Three Kalikes : a comparative study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis / Some crosscurrents of linguistic nationalism : M.Y. Berdyczewski on the centrality of Hebrew / Bialik's "Tsafririm" : Innocnece and experience / Death in a furnished room : Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's obituaries / Philip Roth, Jewish identity, and the satire of modern success / Rachel and the female voice : Labor, gender, and the Zionist pioneer vision / Revising the past : the image of the idyllic "village" / Why did the river turn red? On the story "Orsha" by Gershon Schofmann / Prayer of homecoming by Abraham sutzkever / Kernel / Who is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's novel To Remember, To Forget / Rereading Dan Pagis' "Abba" / What learning is most worth? / Aharon Megged's "Burden" in his portrayals of the effects of Israel's wars / Stanley Nash -- Shading the truth : A.B. Yehoshua's "Facing the Forests" / Political mothers : Women's voice and the binding of Isaac in Israeli poetry / Zionist dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's "A Cow Named Virginia" / Between Genesis and Sophocles : Biblical psychopolitics in A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani / Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days : a poetic dialogue / Frigid option : a psychocultural study of the novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev / Tamar Alexander -- Michael A. Meyer -- Yair Mazor -- David Patterson -- Gershon Shaked -- William Cutter -- Glenda Abramson -- Steven J. Zipperstein -- Murray Baumgarten -- Yael Zerubavel -- Gabriella Moscati Steindler -- Avner Holtzman -- Ruth R. Wisse -- Aharon Appelfeld -- Nurith Gertz -- Robert K. Baruch -- Walter Ackerman -- Gilead Morahg -- Ruth Kartun-Blum -- Naomi Sokoloff -- Yael S. Feldman -- Nili Rachel Scharf Gold -- Yigal Schwartz. Part III : Diaspora ; Heinrich Heine's "prinzessin Sabbath" / Part IV : Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel ;

"Contains close textual readings by leading scholars of a broad range of texts that were originally written in different languages.--Publishers' preface

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Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970 --Criticism and interpretation.
Band, Arnold J.
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970.
Band, Arnold J.


Jewish literature--History and criticism.
Hebrew literature--History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Littérature juive--Histoire et critique.
Littérature hébraïque--Histoire et critique.
Littérature rabbinique--Histoire et critique.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Hebrew literature.
Jewish literature.
Jews in literature.
Rabbinical literature.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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