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  • American Hebraist

    Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature

    par Alan Mintz ...
    Collections series Dimyonot
    Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Sanctuary in the Wilderness

    A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry

    par Alan Mintz ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe settled in America, ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

  • Ancestral Tales

    Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon

    par Alan Mintz ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over—in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon's epic ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Parable and Its Lesson

    A Novella

    par S. Y. Agnon ...
    Traduit par James S. Diamond ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these stories were collected and published three years after Agnon's death, few took notice. Years passed ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Parable and Its Lesson

    A Novella

    par S. Y. Agnon ...
    Traduit par James S. Diamond ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these stories were collected and published three years after Agnon's death, few took notice. Years passed ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

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    Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation

    par Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman ...
    An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its historical and cultural context, provides a summary of content and author, and reflects on its relevance for today’s readers. ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Full Severity of Compassion

    The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    par Chana Kronfeld ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book seeks to fill the gap.Widely considered one of the greatest poets of our time and the most important ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Elie Wiesel

    par Elie Wiesel, Richard D. Heffner ...
    Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    par Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Wicked Son

    Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews

    par David Mamet ...
    Collections series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesAs might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder—the child who asks, “What does this story mean to you?” ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    par Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... En savoir plus

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  • No Joke

    Making Jewish Humor

    par Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Collections series Library of Jewish Ideas
    Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD