Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts

Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" languages. The essays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195112032
• ISBN13: 9780195112030
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 8.9"