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Yehuda Amichai is an Israeli poet of international distinction. Known as Israel's "master poet," Amichai conveys a portrait of life in modern Israel, summarizing and reflecting all the major preoccupations of his generation. Unlike most of his Israeli contemporaries he explores the alteration of Jewish perspectives, the loss of religious orthodoxy and the nature of Jewish identity in the mid-20th century. He illuminates the dislocation of Jewish life after the Holocaust and the dilemma of response on the part of young Israelis. His poetic language is rich in figuration and laced with quotations from classical Jewish texts which he manipulates into ironic discourse with the problems of the present. Echoing the 17th-century metaphysical poets, Amichai's writing reveals a tussle between physical love and spirituality; its tension lies in his failure to synthesize both in religious faith.Abramson presents a detailed critical description and thematic analysis of Amichai's work, with reference to the historical background from which it has emerged. The problems of an emerging national culture are seen subjectively through the eyes of one of its most sensitive and perceptive literary observers.

Jewish Literature --- Literary Criticism --- Jewish literature --- Literary criticism

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Mit über 20.000 bio-bibliographischen Einträgen präsentiert die Datenbank "Archiv Bibliographia Judaica" die große Vielfalt jüdischen Lebens im deutschen Sprachraum zwischen 1750 und 1950. Das von Renate Heuer in den 1960er Jahren gegründete Archiv sollte deutschsprachigen Jüdinnen und Juden nach dem Nationalsozialismus ihre Stimme zurückgeben und das Leben und Schaffen jüdisch-deutscher Persönlichkeiten aus Literatur, Politik, Wissenschaft, Musik und Kunst dokumentieren. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit sind nun umfassend verfügbar. Die Beiträge dieses Begleitbandes führen in die Datenbank ein und vermitteln Einblicke in historische Kontexte, Recherchemöglichkeiten und konkrete Suchstrategien sowie Fallbeispiele. Die israelische Vorgeschichte des Archivs, repräsentiert durch den geistigen Mitgründer, Elazar Benyoëtz wird ebenso behandelt wie die von Anfang an kontroverse Frage, welche Persönlichkeiten als jüdisch aufgenommen werden sollten. Der Band zeigt, dass die Datenbank ein dynamischer Bestandteil des stetig weiter wachsenden Wissens zum jüdischen Leben im deutschen Sprachraum ist.

Jewish literature --- History and criticism.

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The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding methods of researching and teaching literatures. Disseminating Jewish Literatures compiles case studies that represent a broad range of epistemological and textual approaches to the curricula and research programs of literature departments in Europe, Israel, and the United States. In doing so, it promotes the integration of Jewish literatures into national philologies and the implementation of comparative, transnational approaches to the reading, teaching, and researching of literatures. Instead of a dichotomizing approach, Disseminating Jewish Literatures endorses an exhaustive, comprehensive conceptualization of the Jewish literary corpus across languages. Included in this volume are essays on literatures in Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, as well as essays reflecting the fields of Yiddish philology and Latin American studies. The volume is based on the papers presented at the Gentner Symposium funded by the Minerva Foundation, held at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2018.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Education. --- Jewish literature. --- multilingualism.

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A new translation of a modern Yiddish masterpiece.

Jewish fiction. --- Yiddish literature. --- Jewish literature

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Around the Point is a unique collection that brings to readers the works of almost thirty scholars dealing with Jewish literature in various Jewish and non-Jewish languages, such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish, and Russian. Although this volume does not cover all the languages of Jewish letters, it is a significant endeavor in establishing the realm of multilingual international study of Jewish literature and culture. Among the questions under ...

Jewish literature --- Jews --- Judaica --- Hebrew literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature