City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing: Modern Jewish Scriptures - Hardcover

Baumgarten, Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674132785 ISBN 13: 9780674132788

Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR, 1982

Inhaltsangabe

This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon.

Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674132785
• ISBN 13: 9780674132788
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 185
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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