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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth

Product Description: Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel...read more

By Brett Ashley Kaplan

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9781623562946 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 26, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration.

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9781501324734 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration.

Borges, the Jew

Product Description: Explores Borges's infatuation with Jewish history and culture. In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual llan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture...read more

By Ilan Stavans

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9781438461434 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores Borges's infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature

Product Description: This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton...read more

By Beatrice Groves

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9781107113275 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture.

The Imaginary Synagogue: Anti-jewish Literature in the Portuguese Early Modern World (16th-18th Centuries)

Product Description: This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773...read more

By Bruno Feitler

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9789004264106 | Brill Academic Pub, August 27, 2015, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773.

Goethe and Judaism: The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature

Product Description: In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writerâs engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Her premise is that Goetheâs conception of modernityâhis apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his ageâis deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism...read more

By Karin Schutjer

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9780810131330 | Northwestern Univ Pr, October 21, 2015, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writerâs engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism.

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9780810131736 | Northwestern Univ Pr, October 21, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Â In Goethe and Judaism, Schutjer aims to provide a broad, though by no means exhaustive, literary study that is neither apologetic nor reductive, that attends to the complexity and irony of Goetheâs literary work but takes his representations of Judaism seriously as an integral part of his thought and writing.

The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel

By Stephen E. Tabachnick

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9780817318215 | Univ of Alabama Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $39.95

The Mysteries of Righteousness: The Literary Composition and Genre of the Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

By Walter T. Wilson

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9783161462115 | Mohr Siebrek Ek, December 1, 1994, cover price $127.00

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9781620329009 | Reprint edition (Wipf & Stock Pub, March 1, 2013), cover price $27.00

Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-holocaust Literature and Culture

By Malgorzata Pakier (editor)

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9783631622292 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 18, 2012, cover price $47.95

Judaism in Marcel Proust: Anti-semitism, Philo-semitism, and Judaic Perspectives in Art

By Bette H. Lustig

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9781433120343 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 3, 2012, cover price $76.95

Modern Orthodoxies: Jewish Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

Product Description: This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the rituals of Jewish observance and the structure of Talmudic interpretation...read more

By Lisa Naomi Mulman

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9780415972123 | Routledge, May 16, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature.

Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business

Product Description: While Yiddish theater is best known as popular entertainment, it has been shaped by its creators' responses to changing social and political conditions. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business showcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention...read more

By Barbara Henry (editor)

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9780814335048 | Wayne State Univ Pr, May 15, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: While Yiddish theater is best known as popular entertainment, it has been shaped by its creators' responses to changing social and political conditions.

Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot

Product Description: It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists...read more

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

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9781594032516, titled "The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot" | 1 edition (Encounter Books, May 1, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists.

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9781594035968, titled "The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot" | Reprint edition (Encounter Books, May 29, 2012), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question: A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859-1913

Product Description: MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON and the JEWISH QUESTION: A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859 - 1913 Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve of World War One...read more

By Ruth Morris

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9781936320134 | Academica Pr Llc, December 31, 2010, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON and the JEWISH QUESTION: A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859 - 1913 Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve of World War One.

Reading the Underthought: Jewish Hermeneutics and the Christian Poetry of Hopkins and Eliot

Product Description: Reading the Underthought explores the question of how readers from one tradition can approach the poetry of another. Based on the assumption that readers from diverse cultural backgrounds may have something positive and generative to bring to an alien text, this book examines the contribution that a reader schooled in Jewish hermeneutic practices may offer to the interpretation and appreciation of mainstream Christian religious poetry...read more

By Rachel Salmon Deshen

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9780813217420 | Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, June 23, 2010, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Reading the Underthought explores the question of how readers from one tradition can approach the poetry of another.

The Jews And British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, History

Product Description: Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East...read more

By Sheila A. Spector (editor)

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9781403964540 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 16, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East.

Heine

This title provides a short, brilliant analysis of one of Germany's greatest writers.

By Ritchie Robertson

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9780802110640 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of Heine, discusses the major themes of his writings, and looks at the influence of his Jewish heritage

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9781870015929 | 2 edition (Halban Pub, February 1, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This title provides a short, brilliant analysis of one of Germany's greatest writers.

German Literature Between Faiths: Jew And Christian At Odds And In Harmony

Product Description: Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries, and the canon looks different when this perspective is acknowledged. For example, Goetheâs fascination with evil is difficult to disentangle from the Holocaust, Moses Mendelssohn is as profound as the playwright who portrayed him, and Â«Princess SabbathÂ» deserves to be numbered among Heineâs more enchanting lyrics...read more

By Peter Meister (editor)

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9780820469843 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 2004, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries, and the canon looks different when this perspective is acknowledged.

9783039101740 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 31, 2004, cover price $69.95

Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings

By Michael Galchinsky (editor)

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9781551113777 | Broadview Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $27.95

George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism

Product Description: This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By K. M. Newton and Saleel Nurbhai

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9780333963814 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 20, 2002, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism.

Glorious Incomprehensible": The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language

Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'.

By Sheila A. Spector

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9781611481310, titled "Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language" | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $70.00

9780838754696 | Bucknell Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'.

A.M. Klein: Poet and Prophet

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By Edward Baxter (trans) and Naim Kattan

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9780968816660 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.96

Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth

Approaching myth as the structuring principle of intentionality, Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth analyzes the evolution of William Blake's myth in the illuminated books. With numerous reproductions of the visual and references to the verbal art, Spector traces the profound shift that occurred in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts through the final prophecy, Jerusalem.

By Sheila A. Spector

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9780838754689 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $59.50

9781611481303 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Approaching myth as the structuring principle of intentionality, Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth analyzes the evolution of William Blake's myth in the illuminated books.

James Joyce's Judaic Other

Product Description: How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyceâs writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies, arguing that in Joyce the emblematic figure of otherness is Âthe Jew...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marilyn Reizbaum

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9780804732550 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyceâs writing?

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9780804734738 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyceâs writing?

Judaism in the Works of Beer-Hofmann and Feuchtwanger

Product Description: Unlike most of their contemporary German Jewish writers, Richard Beer-Hofmann (born in Vienna in 1866) and Lion Feuchtwanger (born in Bavaria in 1884) were openly proud of their Jewishness. Their works mainly focus on Jewish topics and draw extensively from the authors' heritage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sarah Fraiman

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9780820438597 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Unlike most of their contemporary German Jewish writers, Richard Beer-Hofmann (born in Vienna in 1866) and Lion Feuchtwanger (born in Bavaria in 1884) were openly proud of their Jewishness.

The Law and the Song: Hebraic, Christian, and Pagan Revivals in Sixteenth-Century France

Product Description: This critical study examines the legitimation of modern sensibilities in Renaissance French songs. These humanist poets--Clement Marot, Marguerite de Navarre, and Pierre de Ronsard--advance laws in their vernacular songs based on reformed beliefs in God or on a new cosmology...read more

By Ehsan Ahmed

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9781883479190 | Summa Pubns, January 1, 1998, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This critical study examines the legitimation of modern sensibilities in Renaissance French songs.

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