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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) /
"Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: can Hebrew save the humanities? / Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff
- Hebrew and the creative imagination. Living in Hebrew: on jealousy and creativity / Dara Horn
- Dying in Hebrew: the palace of memory / Ilan Stavans
- Hebrew and the academy. The anxiety of authenticity: Hebrew, sushi, and suspicious objects / Nancy E. Berg
- Language memoir: the case for Hebrew / Naomi B. Sokoloff
- H is for Hebrew: hawking a resacralized Hebrew in America / Wendy Zierler
- Hebrew and the community. Curating connections: public scholarship, new media, and building bridges to Hebrew culture / Hannah S. Pressman
- Hebrew infusion in American Jewish Life: tensions and the role of Israeli Hebrew / Sarah Bunin Benor
- Hebrew and the cross-cultural text. Embracing allegory, or Rereading American Hebrew poetry in Jerusalem / Adam Rovner
- "Not my mother tongue": Hebrew Literature in translation / Adriana X. Jacobs
- How acting lessons have made me a better Hebrew poet / Robert Whitehill-Bashan
- Robert Whitehill-Bashan and the prospects for a new American Hebrew literature / Michael Weingrad
- Hebrew and the Hebraist agenda. Hebrew in America: a memoir / Alan Mintz
- Afterword: about the title, or, What we talk about when we talk about our title.