Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939
Title | Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Schachter |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2021-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0810144387 |
Finalist, 2023 National Jewish Book Award Winners in Women’s Studies In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority and reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging. Born in the former Russian and Austro‐Hungarian Empires and writing from their homes in New York, Poland, and Mandatory Palestine, the authors central to this book—Fradl Shtok, Dvora Baron, Elisheva Bikhovsky, Leah Goldberg, and Debora Vogel—seized on the freedoms of social revolution to reimagine Jewish culture beyond the traditionally male world of Jewish letters. The societies they lived in devalued women’s labor and denied them support for their work. In response, their writing challenged the social hierarchies that excluded them as women and as Jews. As she reads these women, Schachter upends the idea that literary modernity was a conversation among men about women, with a few women writers listening in. Women writers revolutionized the very terms of Jewish fiction at a pivotal moment in Jewish history, transcending the boundaries of Jewish minority identities. Schachter tells their story and in so doing calls for a new way of thinking about Jewish cultural modernity.
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939
Title | Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Schachter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-12-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780810144361 |
Focusing on interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illuminates how women authors leveraged prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority, reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging, and contribute to Jewish literary modernity.
Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism
Title | Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Annette Yoshiko Reed |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 052111943X |
A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Kosher Capones
Title | The Kosher Capones PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Kraus |
Publisher | Northern Illinois University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501747339 |
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe
Title | Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Liska |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2007-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253000076 |
With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.
Writing a Modern Jewish History
Title | Writing a Modern Jewish History PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Heschel |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300106770 |
In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), a preeminent scholar who revolutionized the study of Jewish history during his lengthy tenure at Columbia University. Baron's important ideas are reflected throughout these texts, which concern strategies for the continuous identity of a dispersed people. Featured essays discuss the meaning and significance of colonial portraits of American Jews; the history of an extraordinary group of Jews in the remote Amazon; the charitable fairs organized by Jewish women to raise money for various causes in nineteenth-century America; the place of Jews in postmodern American culture; the "Jewish unconscious" of the art critic Meyer Schapiro; and Salo Baron's influence as a historian and teacher. A group of poems by Robert Pinsky accompanies the essays. Together these writings form a dynamic interplay of ideas that encourages readers to think deeply about Jewish history and identity.
Prophets Outcast
Title | Prophets Outcast PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Shatz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560255093 |
Includes writings by Isaac Deutscher, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Leon Trotsky, I. F. Stone, Uri Avnery, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and others.