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Jewish Studies

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The Dybbuk Century

The Jewish Play That Possessed the World

Edited by Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

How a 100-year-old play about spiritual possession beyond the grave continues to engage and fascinate

The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time

By Miriamne Ara Krummel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Confronts the fraught temporal dissonances that are written into the structure of sacred Jewish and Christian time

Everywoman Her Own Theology

On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker

By Martha Nell Smith & Julie R. Enszer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Under Discussion

Much admired by readers for decades, Alicia Ostriker is celebrated by her peers in fresh and insightful essays

Strange Cocktail

Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry

By Adriana X. Jacobs
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Jewish Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A compelling exploration of the relation between translation and writing in the development of modern Hebrew poetry

The Critics and the Prioress

Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

By Hannah Johnson & Heather Blurton
Subjects: Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer’s most notorious tales

Strangers in Berlin

Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933

By Rachel Elana Seelig
Subjects: Jewish Studies, German Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

Insightful look at the interactions between German and migrant Jewish writers and the creative spectrum of Jewish identity

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

By Jarrod Hayes
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Jewish Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Franz Kafka

Subversive Dreamer

By Michael Lowy
Translated by Inez Hedges
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

An erudite analysis of the critical and subversive dimensions of Kafka’s writings

Never Better!

The Modern Jewish Picaresque

By Miriam Udel
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A fascinating study of the picaresque protagonists of Yiddish literature and their minority authors

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures

Comparative Perspectives

By Anita Norich & Joshua L Miller
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history
 

A Critic's Journey

By Ilan Stavans
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Writers on Writing

One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

Stone Tower

The Political Theater of Arthur Miller

By Jeffrey D. Mason
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Jewish Studies

A revealing look at Arthur Miller's political sensibilities as evidenced in his dramatic works and other writings

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