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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 of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in "Modern Jewish Literatures" takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries-between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The literary world described in "Modern Jewish Literatures" is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the

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Author

Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812204360

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History