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  • Salvage Poetics

    Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

    by Sheila E. Jelen ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Israeli Salvage Poetics

    by Sheila E. Jelen ...
    Series series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    The incorporation of eastern European culture in Israeli Hebrew-language literature.Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the "negation of the diaspora" as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Menachem Kipnis

    Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland

    by Sheila E. Jelen, Menachem Kipnis ...
    Translated by Raphael Finkel ...
    Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) was one of the early twentieth-century’s greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers. He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt, retelling humorous old folk stories about the fictional Polish town of Chelm, populated exclusively by fools. At the same time, his photographs of Jewish life in eastern Europe ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor

    Interdisciplinary Explorations

    by Peter Davies, Hannah Holtschneider, Sheila E. Jelen, Christoph Thonfeld ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book arises out of a long series of conversations about one of the most intriguing, but still under-researched, aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of an individual Holocaust survivor changes through time, through shifting contexts and with increasing age. It comes at this issue from an interdisciplinary perspective, not with the intention to develop a synthetic method but ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Testimonial Montage

    A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance

    by Sheila E. Jelen ...
    Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who were members of the Akiva youth group in Cracow, Poland, who participated in the ghetto resistance. Drawing on literary and photographic discourse, Jelen extracts the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice present in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Building a City

    Writings on Agnon's Buczacz in Memory of Alan Mintz

    Edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, Wendy Zierler ...
    The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)—a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Modern Jewish Literatures

    Intersections and Boundaries

    Edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Modern Jewish Literatures

    Intersections and Boundaries

    Edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    by Leora Batnitzky ...
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  • The No-State Solution

    A Jewish Manifesto

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    **A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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  • Old Truths and New Clichés

    Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer

    by Isaac Bashevis Singer ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work ... Read more

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  • Trauma in First Person

    Diary Writing During the Holocaust

    by Amos Goldberg ...
    An examination of what can be learned by looking at the journals and diaries of Jews living during the Holocaust.What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi ... Read more

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