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Tables of Contents for Booking Passage
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: A Poetics of Exile and Return
3
30
PART ONE. JEWISH JOURNEYS
The Poetics of Pilgrimage: Yehuda Halevi and the Uncompleted Journey
33
19
Lost in Space: S.Y. Abramovitsh and the Skeptical Voyage
52
29
In the Heart of the Seas: S.Y. Agnon and the Epic of Return
81
22
By Train, by Ship, by Subway: Sholem Aleichem and the American Voyage of Self-Invention
103
38
PART TWO. JEWISH GEOGRAPHIES
Writing Poetry after Auschwitz: Paul Celan as the Last Barbarian
141
16
Reclaiming a Plot in Radautz: Dan Pagis and the Prosaics of Memory
157
22
Between Bukovina and Jerusalem: Aharon Appelfeld and Pilgrimage to the Ruined Shrine
179
21
(Re)Imagining Europe: The Anachronistic Tales of I.B. Singer
200
21
The Grapes of Roth: Diasporism from Portnoy to Shylock
221
22
Conclusion: The Imagination of Return and the Return of Imagination
234
9
Epilogue
243
2
Notes
245
76
Bibliography
321
26
Index
347