Jewish Literature
by Ilan StavansEstimated delivery 3-12 business days
Format Paperback
Condition Brand New
Description The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who madethose traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, ClariceLispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during theHolocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentiethcentury. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.
- ISBN 0190076976
- ISBN-13 9780190076979
- Title Jewish Literature
- Author Ilan Stavans
- Format Paperback
- Year 2021
- Pages 176
- Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
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