American Hebraist
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09238-6 (ISBN)
American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction.
Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship.
Beverly Bailis is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Director of Academic Planning and Assessment at the Jewish Theological Seminary. David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Acknowledgements
American Hebraist: An Introduction
David Stern
1. Agnon’s Childhood
2. Agnon in Jaffa: The Myth of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Agnon Without End
4. In the Seas of Youth
5. On “The Sense of Smell” by S. Y. Agnon
6. Reading Haḥazanim
7. Writing About Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern
8. Ahad Ha-Am and the Essay: The Vicissitudes of Reason
9. Sefer Ha’aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy?
10. Israeli Literature in the Minds of American Readers
11. Haim Gouri at 90
12. Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature
13. Knocking on Heaven’s Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse’s Canon
14. Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Theology: Repositioning the Question
15. Hebrew in America: A Memoir
Epilogue: Packing Up an Office; The Work of Mourning and the
Creation of an Archive (263)
Beverly Bailis
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dimyonot |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-09238-6 / 0271092386 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09238-6 / 9780271092386 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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