Authors: Arnold J. Band
ISBN-13: 9780827607620, ISBN-10: 0827607628
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This outstanding volume of 26 essays represents a cross-section of the writings of Arnold J. Band on Jewish literature. Band, a renowned Jewish studies and humanities scholar, writes on such topics as literature in historic context, interpretations of Hasidic tales and other traditional texts, Zionism, S.Y. Agnon and other important Israeli writers, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the Jewish community.
Scholars and students of literatureparticularly Jewish literatureand Jewish studies won't want to miss this remarkable collection.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Confluent myths : two lives | 3 | |
Back to Moses : reflections on reflections on Freud's reflections on Jewish history | 23 | |
The Beilis trial in literature : notes on history and fiction | 33 | |
A crusades triptych in modern Hebrew literature | 51 | |
Kafka : the margins of assimilation | 65 | |
Swallowing Jonah : the eclipse of parody | 87 | |
The politics of scripture : the Hasidic tale | 109 | |
Folklore, literature, and scripture : the Bratslav tale | 129 | |
From Diaspora to homeland : the transfer of the Hebrew Literary Center to Eretz Yisrael | 143 | |
The new diasporism and the old Diaspora | 157 | |
Adumbrations of the Israeli "identity crisis" in Hebrew literature of the 1960s | 167 | |
The impact of statehood on the Israeli literary imagination | 177 | |
A Jewish existentialist hero : Agnon's "a whole loaf" | 197 | |
The evolving masks of S. J. Agnon | 213 | |
The author, his code, and his reader : the Kafka-Agnon polarities | 227 | |
Agnon encounters Freud | 241 | |
The beginnings of modern Hebrew literature : perspectives on "modernity" | 253 | |
The Ahad Ha-Am-Berdyczewski polarity | 277 | |
The sacralization of language in Bialik's essays | 289 | |
The archaeology of self deception : A. B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani | 299 | |
Refractions of the blood libel in Jewish literature | 317 | |
Scholarship as lamentation : Shalom Spiegel on "the binding of Isaac" | 229 | |
Our "She'ela Nikhbada" : whose Hebrew is it? | 353 | |
Jewish literature in the university | 369 | |
Jewish studies in American liberal arts colleges and universities | 389 | |
Popular fiction and the shaping of Jewish identity | 409 |