Author: Zvi Jagendorf Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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An enchanting blend of humour and crisp observation in a story of Jewish exiles in Britain. Set in wartime and post-war England Wolfy and the Strudelbakers is a comic take on the disaster zone of displacement and exile. Wolfy lives with the 'strudelbakers'-his super-critical aunt and melancholy uncle-in the surrealistic world of refugees granted shelter from persecution. He is an expert at living in two cultures-the chaotic, dark world of uprooted people desperately hanging on to their Jewish religion-and the vitality, variety and temptation he finds in London's streets. "A most impressive novel full of narrative power and unforgettable description."-Jewish Chronicle "The delight is in the comic detail, even when the matter is serious."-The Times Zvi Jagendorf teaches English and Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Author: Zvi Jagendorf Publisher: Halban Publishers ISBN: 1905559933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 387
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Who are these wanderers and outsiders living on the ceasefire line in Jerusalem, a city torn in two? What do they know of an impending storm?
Author: Sandra Dinter Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000692051 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 327
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Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. James, Nick Hornby, Sarah Moss and Stephen Kelman and situating them in their cultural and political contexts, Sandra Dinter uncovers both the reasons for the current popularity of such fiction and the theoretical shift that distinguishes it from earlier literary epochs. The book’s central argument is that the contemporary English novel draws on the constructivist paradigm shift that revolutionised the academic study of childhood several decades ago. Contemporary works of fiction, Dinter argues, depart from the notion of childhood as a naturally given phase of life and examine the agents, interests and conflicts involved in its cultural production. Dinter also considers the limits of this new theoretical impetus, observing that authors and scholars alike, even when they claim to conceive of childhood as a construct, do not always give up on the idea of its ‘natural’ core. Accordingly, this book reconstructs how the English novel between the 1980s and the 2010s oscillates between an acknowledgment of constructivism and an endorsement of childhood as the last irrevocable quintessence of humanity. In doing so, it successfully extends the literary and cultural history of childhood to the immediate present.
Author: Elliott Horowitz Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691190399 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 359
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Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In Reckless Rites, Elliott Horowitz takes a new and forthright look at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history. In the process, he has written the most wide-ranging book on Jewish violence in any language, and the first to fully acknowledge and address the actual anti-Christian practices that became part of the playful, theatrical violence of the Jewish festival of Purim. He has also examined the different ways in which the book of Esther, upon which the festival is based, was used by Jews and Christians over the centuries--whether as an ancient mirror of modern tribulations or as the scriptural basis for anti-Semitic claims regarding the bloodthirstiness of the Jews. Reckless Rites reassesses the historical interpretation of Jewish violence--from the alleged massacre of thousands of Christians in seventh-century Jerusalem to later medieval attacks on Christian symbols such as the crucifix, transgressions that were often committed in full knowledge that their likely consequence would be death. A book that calls for major changes in the way that Jewish history is written and conceptualized, Reckless Rites will be essential reading for scholars and students of history, religion, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Author: Richard I. Cohen Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1837649472 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 274
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This collection of essays breaks new ground in its interdisciplinary study of the way Jews redefined their identity in the changing societies of modern eastern Europe. Sensitively treating the drama of east European Jewry from cultural and political vantage points, prominent scholars provide fresh insights into the complex issues facing the Jewish world. The multifaceted essays in this volume reflect the influence of the pioneering work of the historian Ezra Mendelsohn.
Author: Ruth Gilbert Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 113737473X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today. By interrogating myths and stereotypes and looking at themes of remembering and forgetting, belonging and alienation, location and dislocation, Ruth Gilbert examines how these writers identify the particularity of their difference – while acknowledging that this difference is neither fixed nor final, but always open to re-interpretation.
Author: Paul Binding Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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It's the Fifties, and every weekday all of Britain likes to tune in to its favourite BBC radio serial, The Parkers. No wonder a young man at a loose end, frustrated by his rejection for National Service, gravitates towards the makers of the programme. They all make claims on him - claims that will pursue him down the years into late middle age. And then there's his cousin, Ian. A poignant examination of emotional and cultural confusion. Full of character and resonant with the intrigue of soap opera, it is a post-modern journey through an England long-since disappeared.
Author: Ezra Mendelsohn Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782380035 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
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Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim’s work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry.
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