Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts. Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual XII.

New York: Published for the Abraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xiv, 385 pp. Very Good. Item #12778
ISBN: 0195112032

Articles are "Dramatic History: Reflections on a Biblical Play by Ludwig Robert," Liliane Weissberg, "Englishness and Extraterritoriality: British-Jewish Writing and Diaspora Culture," Bryan Cheyette, "Jabotinsky as Playwright: New Texts, New Subtexts," Michael Stanislawski, "Rabbis, rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past in Modern Yiddish Literature," David G. roskies, "Between Memory and Forgetfulness: The Janus Face of Michah Yosef Berdichevsky," Marcus Moseley, "The Frankist Novels of Isaac bashevis Singer," Chone Shmeruk, "Language as Fate: Reflections on Jewish Literature in America," Ruth R. Wisse, "The Grapes of Roth: 'Diasporism' Between Portnoy and Shylock," Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, "Autonomy and Its Discontents: The Austrian Jewish Congress Movement, 1917-1918," David Rechter, "Jabotinsky's Use of National Myths in Political Struggles," Joseph Heller, "Pageants of Sorrow, Celebration and Protest: The Public Culture of American Jews," Arthur Aryeh Goren, review essays, book reviews, recently completed doctoral dissertations, obituary notices.

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