From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

By Dan Miron

Dan Miron--widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures--begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762007
• ISBN13: 9780804762007
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"