Product Description: These essays examine the ways in which Jewish culture has existed in a mutually enriching, if sometimes problematic, relationship with surrounding non-Jewish cultures. Leading scholars in Judaic studies take up broad methodological concerns and specific case studies illustrating Jewish embeddedness in other cultures and re-examining the famous textuality of the Jews, expanding the notion of text to include other works of art, both material and spiritual...read more

An autobiographical historical novel by the sister of Isaac Bashevis Singer chronicles the life and times of a rabbi's daughter from the ages of fourteen to eighteen in a shtetl in early twentieth-century Europe. Original.

Product Description: In recent years, gender studies and feminist thinking have had a growing influence on the study of world literature. But only noe, in this volume, is a range of studies devoted to the field of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...read more

Product Description: "... the most incisive study to date of the lesser-known but equally talented Singer: Israel Joshua... " —Choice"... exceedingly well researched and written... " —Shofar"This critical examination of the fiction of I.J. Singer is deft in its placement of the novels and short stories in historical context, but with new perspectives on that historical context...read more