- Introduction
- Part I: Making a Canon
- Writing Jewish [Hillel Halkin]
- Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon [Alan Mintz]
- Holocaust Literature: Foreshadowings and Shadowings [David Aberbach]
- Of Jews and Canons: Further Thoughts [Ilan Stavans]
- A Jewish Artistic Canon [Ezra Mendelsohn]
- Judging The Judgment of Shomer: Jewish Literautre versus Jewish Reading [Justin Cammy]
- The Judgment of Shomer or The Jury Trial of All of Shomer’s Novels [Sholem Aleichem, translated by Justin Cammy]
- Part II: Reading Wisse’s Canonical Authors
- Daniel Deronda: “The Zionist Fate in English Hands” and “The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews” [Edward Alexander]
- The Pleasure of Disregarding Red Lights: A Reading of Sholem Aleichem’s “Monologue ‘A Nisref’” [Dan Miron]
- The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and his Ghost Reader [Sasha Senderovich]
- The Open Suitcases: Yankev Glatshteyn’s Ven Yash Iz Gekumen [Avarham Novershtern]
- Seductions and Disputations: Pseudo-Dialogues in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer [Miriam Udel-Lambert]
- Gimpel the Simple and on Reading from Right to Left [David G. Roskies]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Short Story “Androgynous” [Susanne Klingenstein]
- Building Bridges Destined to Fall: Biological and Literary Paternity in Appelfeld’s The Ice Mine [Philip Hollander]
- Life/Writing: Aharon Appelfeld’s Autobiographical Work and the Modern Jewish Canon [Naomi B. Sokoloff]
- Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the Unspeakable [Hana Wirth-Nesher]
- The Modern Hero as Schlemiel: The Swede in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral [Michael Kimmage]
- Part III: Conversations Across Canons and Between Texts
- Innovation by Translation: Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in Literary History [Ken Frieden]
- Creating Yiddish Dialogue for “The First Modern Yiddish Comedy” [Marion Aptroot]
- The Smoke of Civilization: The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh’s Di Klyatshe [Marc Caplan]
- Yiddish Canon Consciousness and the Dionysiac Spirit of Music [Jed Wyrick]
- Joyce’s Yiddish: Modernism, Translation, and the Jews [Rachel Rubenstein]
- The Transmission of Poetic Anger: An Unexploded Shell in the Jewish Canon [Janet Hadda]
- Guilt, Mourning, Idol Worship, and Golem Writing: The Symptoms of a Jewish Literary Canon [Emily Miller Budick]
- Part IV: Interventions: Expanding Wisse’s Canon
- What’s So Funny about Yiddish Theater? Comedy and the Origins of Yiddish Drama [Jeremy Dauber]
- Naked Truths: Avrom Goldfaden’s The Fanatic of the Two Kuni-Lemls [Alyssa Quint]
- Memory as Metaphor: Meir Wiener’s Novel Kolev Ashkenazi as Critique of the Jewish Historical Imagination [Mikhail Krutikov]
- Shmuel Nadler’s Besht-Simfonye: At the Limits of Orthodox Literature [Beatrice Lang Caplan]
- Chava Rosenfarb and The Tree of Life [Goldie Morgentaler]
- Fiddles on Willow Trees: The Missing Polish Link in the Jewish Canon [Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska]
- The Kvetcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger and the Challenges to the Modern Jewish Canon [Leah Garrett]
- Israeli Identity in a Post-Zionist Age [Yaron Peleg]
- Part V. Writers, Critics, and Canons
- Bellow’s Canon [Jonathan Rosen]
- The Eicha Problem [Dara Horn]
- The Grand Explainer [Cynthia Ozick]
- Ruth Wisse Bibliography
- Contributors
CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse
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$75.00 • £65.95 • €68.95
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Publication Date: 01/15/2009
750 pages
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