the babel guide to jewish fiction

Author by : Ray Keenoy
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Publisher by : Boulevard Books
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Description : Who better to tell the story of the Jewish People than the tribe of Jewish storytellers? And what a tribe - the European Jews; Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi, the Yiddish author Shalom Alechem and Londoner Israel Zangwill, the American Jewish writers; Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick, Brazilian Clarice Lispector, Canadian Mordecai Richler and, of course the Israelis like Amos Oz and Nobel-winner S.Y. Agnon. The Babel Guide is a unique introduction to fiction by Jews from around the world available in English with inviting, informative reviews of 150 new and old Jewish classics, with and author database and a list of all fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English.

Author by : D. Brauner
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Publisher by : Springer
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Description : In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

Author by : Sorrel Kerbel
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Publisher by : Routledge
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Description : Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Author by : Stephen Wade
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Publisher by : Routledge
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Description : First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author by : John Mort
Languange : en
Publisher by : Libraries Unlimited
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Description : At last--the first comprehensive readers' advisory guide for this highly popular genre! With an emphasis on contemporary publications, this book covers nearly 2,000 Christian fiction titles,including a chapter on YA literature, and provides detailed annotations and bibliographies.

Author by : Ruth R. Wisse
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Publisher by : University of Chicago Press
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Description : What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon, her compassionate, insightful guide to the finest Jewish literature of the twentieth century. From Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick, Wisse's The Modern Jewish Canon is a book that every student of Jewish literature, and every reader of great fiction, will enjoy.

Author by : Efraim Sicher
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Publisher by : Routledge
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Description : The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, White Noise, and Time's Arrow.

Author by : Isaac Babel
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Publisher by : W. W. Norton
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Description : The collected short stories of a master of the form are accompanied by an assortment of letters, plays, diaries, and screenplays in a remarkable, authorized anthology. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author by : Michael Blumenthal
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Publisher by : Etruscan Press
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Description : American & European sensibility with a contemporary view of Eastern European culture, and the erotic playfulness of European literature.

Author by : Michael Greenstein
Languange : en
Publisher by : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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Description : Canadian-Jewish literature, Greenstein argues, is characterized by the sense of homelessness and exile which dominated the writings of the father of Jewish-Canadian literature, A.M. Klein. Greenstein finds the paradigm for this sense of loss in Henry Kreisel's short story, "The Almost Meeting." Using the theme of this story as a base, Greenstein describes how the Jewish-Canadian writer is divided between life in Canada and a rich European past - between life in the New World and the strong traditions of the Old. The Jewish-Canadian writer may look for a home in both these places, but neither is fulfilling as both are necessary parts of the individual. The writer thus straddles two incompatible worlds and must expect the loss of one or the other. In the struggle to overcome these difficulties and maintain a true dialogue with others and themselves, such writers experience missed or "almost meetings" as they cope with the homelessness that characterizes diaspora and Canada's "third solitude."