Winner, 2015 USC Book Award in Literary and Cultural Studies, for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diaristswriters Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent prewar authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims...
Winner, 2015 USC Book Award in Literary and Cultural Studies, for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field...
In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three...
In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expand...
"An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature "examines literary challenges to Israel s national narratives. The centrality of the army, the mythology of the "new Jew," the vision of the first Israeli city, Tel Aviv, and the very process by which a nation s history is constructed are confronted in fiction by many prominent Israeli writers.
Using the image of suicide, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Yehudit Katzir, Alon Hilu, Yaakov Shabtai, Benjamin Tammuz, and Yehoshua Kenaz each engage in a critical and rhetorical process that examines the nation s formation and reconsiders...
"An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature "examines literary challenges to Israel s national narratives. The centrality of the army, the my...
Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986) is primarily known as a compelling essayist; her stature as a novelist and champion of the dispossessed is largely forgotten. In Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson, Elizabeth Maslen reveals a figure who held her own beside fellow British women writers, including Virginia Woolf; anticipated the Angry Young Women, such as Doris Lessing; and was an early champion of such European writers as Arthur Koestler and Czeslaw Milosz. Jameson was a complex character whose politics were grounded in social justice; she was passionately antifascist--her novel...
Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986) is primarily known as a compelling essayist; her stature as a novelist and champion of the dispossessed is large...
Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category "Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel "shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer s "The Naked and the Dead "to Joseph Heller s "Catch-22," and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to...
Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category "Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War...
Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category "Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel "shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer s "The Naked and the Dead "to Joseph Heller s "Catch-22," and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to...
Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category "Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War...
Winner, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the Jewish Thought and Culture category H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H. G. Adler. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adler s legacy across genres are Adler s son, Jeremy Adler, and Peter Filkins, translator of Adler s trilogy, Panorama, (The Journey).Together, the essays examine Adler s writing in relation to his life, especially his...
Winner, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the Jewish Thought and Culture category H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first c...
Winner, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the Jewish Thought and Culture category H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H. G. Adler. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adler s legacy across genres are Adler s son, Jeremy Adler, and Peter Filkins, translator of Adler s trilogy, Panorama, (The Journey).Together, the essays examine Adler s writing in relation to his life, especially his...
Winner, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the Jewish Thought and Culture category H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first c...
Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain; arguably nowhere else has this conflict developed such longevity in cultural memory and retained such presence in contemporary culture. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process in Britain. More precisely, the essays collected here suggest that this is a continuous work in progress, subject to transgenerational revisions, political expediencies, commercial considerations, and the vicissitudes of popular taste. It would indeed be more accurate to speak of the...
Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain; arguably nowhere else has this conflict developed such l...
