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Title Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / edited by Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav
Published Providence, R.I. : Brown Judaic Studies, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
Series Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349
Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349.
Contents Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / Anita Norich -- From continuity to contiguity : thoughts on the theory of Jewish literature / Dan Miron -- Beyond influence : toward a new historiographic paradigm / Michael L. Satlow -- Hellenistic Judaism : myth or reality? / Gabriele Boccaccini -- "He was renowned to the ends of the earth" (1 Maccabees 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees / Martha Himmelfarb -- Roman statues, rabbis, and Greco-Roman culture / Yaron Z. Eliav -- The ghetto and Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe : towards a new interpretation / David Ruderman -- Hybrid with what? : the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture : their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman -- Idols of the cave and theater : a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman P. Bland -- "Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran -- Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Brooklyn am Rhein? : the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson -- Diaspora and translation : the migrations of Jewish meaning / Naomi Seidman
Notes "Most of the essays ... emerged from a conference held at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Judaism -- 20th century -- Congresses
Judaism and culture -- Congresses
Religion and culture -- Congresses
Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- -- Congresses
Secularism -- Congresses
Jews -- Identity -- Congresses
Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Jewish literature
Jews -- Identity
Judaism
Judaism and culture
Judaism -- Modern period
Religion and culture
Secularism
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Norich, Anita, 1952-
Eliav, Yaron Z.
LC no. 2008016542
ISBN 9781930675636
1930675631