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  • Scribal Secrets

    Extraordinary Texts in the Torah and Their Implications

    The text of the Torah includes not only its words, but also various atypical scribal features. Prime among these are the dots over certain letters, various letters written either large or small, and the exceedingly odd placement of two inverted Hebrew letters surrounding one passage. What are these features doing there? How old are they? Do they carry meaning? How have they been interpreted over ... Leer más

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  • The Parable and Its Lesson

    A Novella

    de S. Y. Agnon ...
    Traducido por James S. Diamond ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Parable and Its Lesson

    A Novella

    de S. Y. Agnon ...
    Traducido por James S. Diamond ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • One Hundred Great Jewish Books

    Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation

    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. ... Leer más

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  • Jews and Humor

    Edición de Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this ... Leer más

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  • Unclean Lips

    Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

    de Josh Lambert ...
    Series Libro 10 - Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies
    Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish StudiesJews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions ... Leer más

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    Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination

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    Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of ... Leer más

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  • A Question of Tradition

    Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987

    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded as marginal. But for over four centuries, women wrote and published Yiddish poems that addressed ... Leer más

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