TY - BOOK AU - Jacobson,David C. AU - Cutter,William AU - Satlow,Michael L. ED - Brown University. ED - National Endowment for the Humanities, ED - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, TI - History and literature: new readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band T2 - Brown Judaic studies SN - 9781946527165 AV - PN842 .H57 2020eb PY - 2020/// CY - Providence PB - Brown Judaic Studies KW - Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, KW - Band, Arnold J. KW - Jewish literature KW - History and criticism KW - Hebrew literature KW - Rabbinical literature KW - Jews in literature KW - Littérature juive KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature hébraïque KW - Littérature rabbinique KW - Juifs dans la littérature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - "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; Preface; David C. Jacobson --; Two views of Arnold Band; Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar --; Reflections on Arnold Band, scholar, teacher, mentor; William Cutter --; Dor Dor Vedorshav; of fathers and sons; Michael A. Signer --; Part I : Classical Jewish texts and modern interpreters; Two literary Talmudic readings; David M. Gordis --; Sefer Ha'aggadah; Triumph or tragedy?; Alan Mintz --; Scroll of fire : an interpretation; Ezra Spicehandler --; Rabbi Nahman's third beggar; Joseph Dan --; Parallel worlds : Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh; David Ellenson --; Third guide for the perpelxed? Simon Rawidowicz "On Interpretation"; David N. Myers --; Part II : S.Y. Agnon; S.Y. Agnon's "From foe to friend" : Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor; Dan Almagor --; Is Tehillah worthy of her praise?; Risa Domb --; Religious ecstasy, erotic turmoil, and Christian innuendoes in S.Y. Agnon's "Haneshiqah Harishonah" ("First Kiss"); Dalia Dromi --; Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon's Shira; Nancy Ezer --; Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa : a hallucinatory vision in S.Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom; Avraham Holtz --; Childish distortions of rabbinic texts in S.Y. Agnon's "Hamitpahat"; David C. Jacobson --; What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death"; Malka Shaked --; Agnon from a medieval perspective; David Stern; Part III : Diaspora; Wealthy Señor Miguel : a study of a Sephardic novella; Tamar Alexander --; Imagined Jew; Heinrich Heine's "prinzessin Sabbath"; Michael A. Meyer --; Way of the "Wail of the Wind" : Peretz Smolenskin's latent, worthy Ars Poetica; Yair Mazor --; Assonance and its share in Irony : comments on Sefer Haqabtasanim; David Patterson --; Three Kalikes : a comparative study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis; Gershon Shaked --; Some crosscurrents of linguistic nationalism : M.Y. Berdyczewski on the centrality of Hebrew; William Cutter --; Bialik's "Tsafririm" : Innocnece and experience; Glenda Abramson --; Death in a furnished room : Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's obituaries; Steven J. Zipperstein --; Philip Roth, Jewish identity, and the satire of modern success; Murray Baumgarten --; Part IV : Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel; Rachel and the female voice : Labor, gender, and the Zionist pioneer vision; Yael Zerubavel --; Revising the past : the image of the idyllic "village"; Gabriella Moscati Steindler --; Why did the river turn red? On the story "Orsha" by Gershon Schofmann; Avner Holtzman --; Prayer of homecoming by Abraham sutzkever; Ruth R. Wisse --; Kernel; Aharon Appelfeld --; Who is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's novel To Remember, To Forget; Nurith Gertz --; Rereading Dan Pagis' "Abba"; Robert K. Baruch --; What learning is most worth?; Walter Ackerman --; 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"; Gilead Morahg --; Political mothers : Women's voice and the binding of Isaac in Israeli poetry; Ruth Kartun-Blum --; Zionist dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's "A Cow Named Virginia"; Naomi Sokoloff --; Between Genesis and Sophocles : Biblical psychopolitics in A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani; Yael S. Feldman --; Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days : a poetic dialogue; Nili Rachel Scharf Gold --; Frigid option : a psychocultural study of the novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev; Yigal Schwartz N2 - "Contains close textual readings by leading scholars of a broad range of texts that were originally written in different languages.--Publishers' preface UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzpv540 ER -