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Authors: Arnold J. Band
ISBN-13: 9780827607620, ISBN-10: 0827607628
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Arnold J. Band

Book Synopsis

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 literature—particularly Jewish literature—and Jewish studies won't want to miss this remarkable collection.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Confluent myths : two lives3
Back to Moses : reflections on reflections on Freud's reflections on Jewish history23
The Beilis trial in literature : notes on history and fiction33
A crusades triptych in modern Hebrew literature51
Kafka : the margins of assimilation65
Swallowing Jonah : the eclipse of parody87
The politics of scripture : the Hasidic tale109
Folklore, literature, and scripture : the Bratslav tale129
From Diaspora to homeland : the transfer of the Hebrew Literary Center to Eretz Yisrael143
The new diasporism and the old Diaspora157
Adumbrations of the Israeli "identity crisis" in Hebrew literature of the 1960s167
The impact of statehood on the Israeli literary imagination177
A Jewish existentialist hero : Agnon's "a whole loaf"197
The evolving masks of S. J. Agnon213
The author, his code, and his reader : the Kafka-Agnon polarities227
Agnon encounters Freud241
The beginnings of modern Hebrew literature : perspectives on "modernity"253
The Ahad Ha-Am-Berdyczewski polarity277
The sacralization of language in Bialik's essays289
The archaeology of self deception : A. B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani299
Refractions of the blood libel in Jewish literature317
Scholarship as lamentation : Shalom Spiegel on "the binding of Isaac"229
Our "She'ela Nikhbada" : whose Hebrew is it?353
Jewish literature in the university369
Jewish studies in American liberal arts colleges and universities389
Popular fiction and the shaping of Jewish identity409

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