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The Polyphony of Jewish Culture /
This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish culture. The essays combine a wide historical scope with meticulously detailed close analyses of the art...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Culture and History
- 1. Theses on the Historical Context of the Modern Jewish Revolution
- 2. Multilingualism
- 3. The Crisis of Jewish Identity: S.Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday
- 4. American Poetry in Yiddish and its Background
- 5. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
- Art and Poetry
- 6. On the Beginnings of Israeli Poetry and Yehuda Amichai's Quatrains: A Memoir
- 7. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself: Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner
- 8. The Role of Language in Chagall's Early Paintings
- 9. A. Sutzkever: Life and Poetry
- 10. Note on the Systems of Hebrew Versification: Bible to Present
- Sources of the Chapters