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The Temple of Culture : Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
ISBN: 9780195131574 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses...
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "cultur...
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964,32 zł |
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The Temple of Culture : Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
ISBN: 9780195151992 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses...
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "cultur...
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329,98 zł |
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The Holocaust and the Postmodern
ISBN: 9780199265930 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Holocaust and the Postmodern argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a response to the Holocaust. This way of thinking offers new perspectives on Holocaust testimony, literature, historiography, and post-Holocaust philosophy. While postmodernism is often derided for being either playful and superficial or obscure and elitist, this book argues and demonstrates its commitment both to the past and to ethics.
Dealing with Holocaust testimony, including the work of Primo Levi and Eli Wiesel, with the memoirs of... The Holocaust and the Postmodern argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is...
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1128,37 zł |
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Hurban : Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature
ISBN: 9780231056342 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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581,53 zł |
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Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert
ISBN: 9780252030437 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Israel in Exile" is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical scepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, and Amos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabes and Simone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesis between the desert and the city or...
"Israel in Exile" is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for ...
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161,47 zł |
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Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780253344922 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and the autobiographical work The Story of My Life, Budick reveals the compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations,... How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "ack... |
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208,59 zł |
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe : A Guide
ISBN: 9780253348753 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and... With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe. Str... |
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118,03 zł |
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The Kingly Crown: The Kingly Crown
ISBN: 9780268033033 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown). Hailed by scholars as one of the most important classics of Hebrew literature, The Kingly Crown employs the metaphor of a king in his palace to describe the relationship between humanity and God. This medieval poem is full of vivid imagery and scriptural references. Within its many layers of meaning, readers will find not only an extended prayer and meditation, but also signs of the neoplatonic philosophy that formed the...
Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Mal...
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100,60 zł |
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The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature: False Messiah and National Hero
ISBN: 9780271025711 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132-135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of Judea. In early rabbinic literature, Bar Kokhba was remembered in two ways: as an imposter claiming to be the Messiah and as a glorious military leader whose successes led Rabbi Akiba, one of the great rabbinic authorities of Jewish tradition, to acclaim him the Messiah. These two earliest images formed the core of most later perceptions of Bar Kokhba, so that he became the prototypical false messiah and the paradigmatic rebel of Jewish... Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132-135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of J... |
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203,94 zł |
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Between God and Beast : An Examination of Amos Oz's Prose
ISBN: 9780271026145 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Between God and Beast, Avraham Balaban argues that Oz's fiction has, from the outset, followed Jung's psychological theory. The major psychic processes that are depicted throughout Oz's prose are typically Jungian. For example, the treasure hunt, which is the deep structure of many of Oz's stories and novels, reflects the search for the "self" in which all the vying forces of one's psyche coexist peacefully. Oz uses many of the symbols of the treasure as well as of the self as they are presented by Jung. Many of the symbols examined in this study have never before been... In Between God and Beast, Avraham Balaban argues that Oz's fiction has, from the outset, followed Jung's psychological theory. The major p... |
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203,94 zł |
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Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil
ISBN: 9780299139940 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book of poems commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Classmate of Simone de Beauvoir, acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition.
This book of poems commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Classmate of Simone de Beauvoir, acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Ci...
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66,45 zł |
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Journeys Beyond the Pale : Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780299184445 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.
An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their ...
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78,97 zł |
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Kafka and Cultural Zionism : Dates in Palestine
ISBN: 9780299221904 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kafka and Cultural Zionism is an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of this major modernist German author. Through a thorough examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his writings, Iris Bruce makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in Kafka's literary works. In recognizing this essential part of Kafka's individual voice, Bruce hopes to provide a new perspective on Kafka and his writings that allows the reader to find the humor, playfulness, rebelliousness, and challenge that can be overlooked if the...
Kafka and Cultural Zionism is an illumination of the individual Jewish identity of this major modernist German author. Through a thorough exami...
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254,94 zł |
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Rabbinic Fantasies : Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature
ISBN: 9780300074024 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewish imagination. Presenting the captivating world of rabbinic storytelling, it reveals facets of the Jewish experience and tradition that would otherwise have remained unknown and examines the surprisingly deep connection between the values of classical Judaism and the art of imaginative narrative writing. Virtually all the narratives appear here in English for the first time. Sometimes pious, sometimes playful, and sometimes almost scandalous, they are each accompanied by...
This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewish imagination. Presenting the ...
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209,69 zł |
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Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists : A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780313294624 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have significantly contributed to the world of literature. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 75 Jewish-American novelists whose major works were largely written after World War II. Included are entries for both well-known and relatively obscure novelists, many of whom are just becoming established as significant literary figures. While the volume profiles major canonical figures such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, it also aims to be more inclusive than other works on contemporary... Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have significantly contributed to the world of literature. This reference book includes alphabeticall... |
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417,48 zł |
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Student Companion to Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9780313325304 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Since it was written nearly 50 years ago, "Night "(1958) has changed world perception of the Holocaust experience. Wiesel's oeuvre, including Holocaust narratives such as "Dawn" (1961), novels, essays, tales, and plays, has also altered the critical and aesthetic landscape through which we view literature, placing themes of religious identity, hope, survival, devotion to family, and humanity ahead of distinctions of fiction and nonfiction. This volume offers critical analysis of all of Wiesel's major writings, with full chapters on "Night, Dawn, The Oath," and four other full-length works.... Since it was written nearly 50 years ago, "Night "(1958) has changed world perception of the Holocaust experience. Wiesel's oeuvre, including Holoc... |
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216,86 zł |
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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature
ISBN: 9780415957182 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish people to be complicit with orientalism because of the Zionist movement. However, the Jews of Europe have themselves been caught between East and West --both marginalized as the "Orientals" of... Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and ca... |
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658,15 zł |
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Jewish in America
ISBN: 9780472068807 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, empowered by a powerful sacramental and hermeneutic tradition yet challenged by that tradition's stunning variety of inflections, impelled to furious response by world crisis, these writers testify not...
"Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on...
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133,58 zł |
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Jewish in America
ISBN: 9780472098804 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, empowered by a powerful sacramental and hermeneutic tradition yet challenged by that tradition's stunning variety of inflections, impelled to furious response by world crisis, these writers testify not...
"Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on...
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371,52 zł |
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Booking Passage : Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination
ISBN: 9780520206458 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the "poetics of exile and return." Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center-Jerusalem, Zion-fatefully out of reach. Opening the book with "Jewish Journeys," Ezrahi begins by examining the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the sublime realignment of the people with their...
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what...
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260,02 zł |