Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron's Fiction.
Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 2007. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, ii, 294 pp., notes, about the authors. Very Good. Item #91377
ISBN: 9281830530951
Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture: The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland XIV. Articles are "The Endless Cycle: The Poetic World of Dvora Baron," Dan Miron, "The Genesis of Dvora Baron," Nurit Givrin, "Staring at the Bookcase: Daughters, Knowledge, and the Fiction of Dvora Baron," Wendy Ilene Zierler, "Tidbits from Nehama's Kitche: Alternate Nationalism in Dvora Baron's 'The Exiles,'" Orly Lubin, "The Rabbinical Court as a Slaughterhouse: Dvora' Baron's 'Bll of Divorcement,'" Avraham Balaban, ""Like a Wife Forsaken': On the Story 'Agunah,'" Marc S. Bernstein, "Unraveling the Yarn: Intertextuality, Gender, and Cultural Critique in Dvora Baron's Fiction," Shachar Pinsker, "Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature," Naomi Seidman, "All Writer Are Jews, All Jews Are Men: Dvora Baron and the Literature of the 'Uprooted,'" Jolen. Selected works by Dvora Baron: "Transformations," translated by Haim Watzman, "For the Time Being," Jolen, "Agunah," Marc S. Bernstein.
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