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Verlag: New York: Free Press, 2000, 2000
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, slight edgewear, cover price $28.00, attractive black and green hardcover, very good, top edge of a few pages has tiny tears. WISSE, RUTH R. The modern Jewish canon: a journey through language and culture. New York: Free Press, 2000, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xviii, 395pp., . The author examines Jewish language and culture as seen through Jewish literature and looks at the characteristics which make a book "Jewish." - CONTENTS: The comedy of endurance : Sholem Aleichem -- The logic of language and the trials of the Jews : Franz Kafka and Yosef Haim Brenner -- Literature of the Russian Revolution : from Isaac Babel to Vasily Grossman -- Between the wars : the Singer family of Warsaw -- A farewell to Poland : Jacob Glatstein and S.Y. Agnon -- Shoah, Jhurbn, Holocaust : testimonies in native and adopted tongues -- The Zionist fate in English hands : from George Eliot to A.M. Klein -- The immigrant phase : American Jewish fiction from 1900 to 1950 -- Writing beyond alienation : Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth --A chapter in the making : Israeli Literature. 9780684830759 ISBN 0684830752.