The polyphony of Jewish culture
This book is a collection of seminal essays on major aspects of Jewish culture: Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Europe, America and Israel, transformations of Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the formal traditions of Hebrew verse.
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
VIII, 285 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780804755122, 0804755124
237133842
CONTENTS Preface xxx Culture and History 1 1. Theses on the Historical Context of the Modern Jewish Revolution 00 2. Multilingualism 00 3. The Crisis of Jewish Identity: S.Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday 00 4. American Poetry in Yiddish and its Background 00 5. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania 00 Art and Poetry 00 6. On the Beginnings of Israeli Poetry and Yehuda Amichai's Quatrains: A Memoir 00 7. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself: Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner 00 8. The Role of Language in Chagall's Early Paintings 00 9. A. Sutzkever: Life and Poetry 00 10. Note on the Systems of Hebrew Versification: Bible to Present 00 Sources of the Chapters 00
Theses on the historical context of the modern Jewish revolution -- Multilingualism -- The crisis of Jewish identity : S.Y. Agnon's only yesterday -- American poetry in Yiddish and its background -- The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania -- Art and poetry -- On the beginnings of Israeli poetry and Yehuda Amichai's quatrains : a memoir -- The modern Hebrew poem itself : Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner -- The role of language in Chagall's early paintings -- A. Sutzkever : life and poetry -- Note on the systems of Hebrew versification : Bible to present