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Title Jewish rhetorics : history, theory, practice / Michael Bernard-Donals and Janice W. Fernheimer, editors
Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 278 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Taking a Stance toward God: Rhetoric in the Book of Psalms / Davida Charney -- 2. Rhetoric of Rabbinic Authority: Making the Transition from Priest to Sage / Richard Hidary -- 3. Judah Messer Leon and the Sefer Nofet Zufim: Rethinking Rhetorical Delivery in the Early Age of Print / Jim Ridolfo -- 4. "The Pretty Heiress from Our Old House": Figuring the Yiddish-Hebrew Relationship in Rhetorical Works by Itzik Manger and Ya'akov Fichman / Hannah S. Pressman -- 5. Jewish Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century: Chaim Perelman, Double Fidelite, and the Pre-Holocaust Roots of the New Rhetoric Project / David A. Frank -- 6. Socrates as Rabbi: The Story of the Aleph and the Alpha in a Postinformation Age / Steven B. Katz -- 7. Maimonides's Contribution to a Theory of Self-Persuasion / David Metzger -- 8. Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, Sophist? / Patricia Bizzell -- 9. Is Midrash Comics? A Fish Story about Graphic Narrative, Visual Rhetoric, and Rabbinic Hermeneutics / Susan Handelman -- 10. S. Yizhar's Khirbet Khizeh and the Rhetoric of Conflict / Shai Ginsburg -- 11. Esther's Book: A Rhetoric of Writing for Jewish Feminists / Susan Zaeske -- 12. "Shema Yisrael": Listening in Judaism and What It Has to Teach Us / Joy Arbor -- 13. Simulated Shiur? Post-It Notes of an ArtScroll Amateur / Jonathan Boyarin -- 14. Of Superheroes and Synecdoche: Holocaust Exceptionalism, Race, and the Rhetoric of Jewishness in America / Jennifer Glaser -- 15. "That Ceremonious Feeling of Growing Up": The Educational Practice of Bar Mitzvah in the Jewish Children's Folkshul / Eli Goldblatt
Summary Addresses the plurality of Jewish approaches to rhetoric and traditions from ancient times to the present day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hebrew language -- Rhetoric
Yiddish language -- Rhetoric
Hebrew literature -- History and criticism
Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
Jewish literature -- History and criticism
Jews -- Identity.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Hebrew language -- Rhetoric
Hebrew literature
Jewish literature
Jews -- Identity
Yiddish literature
Juden
Rhetorik
Jüdische Literatur
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bernard-Donals, Michael F., editor
Fernheimer, Janice W., 1976- editor.
LC no. 2021693132
ISBN 9781611686418
1611686415