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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464577303321

Titolo

Around the point : studies in jewish literature and culture in multiple languages / / edited by Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman and Ber Kotlerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5752-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (706 p.)

Disciplina

809.88924

Soggetti

Jewish literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Jewish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; AROUND THE POINT; MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESIN ITALY AND SPAIN; THE ASHKENAZIM-EAST VS. WEST; TRANSFORMATION OF SOLITUDES; ALMOND TREE ALLEYINOMERIJANBY DORIT RABINIAN AS A FICTIONAL TEXTAPPEALING TO THE WAY OF LIFEAND TRADITION IN THE JEWISHCOMMUNITY IN IRAN; LADINO INSTRUCTIONS IN MEZA DE EL ALMAAND SEDER NASHIM FROM THESSALONIKIIN THE 16TH CENTURY; LINGUISTIC CONSERVATISMVERSUS LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM; THE LAST REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LADINOLITURGICAL LITERATURE OF THE TURKISHJEWISH COMMUNITY OF ISTANBUL; FROM BISCHWILLER TO JERUSALEMAND BACK; THE BOOK OF EDMOND

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE,BETWEEN FREEDOM AND TRADITIONIN ELIETTE ABÉCASSIS' NOVELET TE VOICI PERMISE À TOUT HOMMETHE DIVINE NAME IN JUDEO-ITALIANTRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEAND ITS INTERCULTURAL CONNECTIONS; INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGEAND MAINTAINING FIDELITY TO JUDAISM; SEDIMENTS OF COMPLEXED JEWISH IDENTITYIN NATALIA GINZBURG'SWRITINGS; FRANZ KAFKA AND THE JEWISH RELIGION; KAFKA'SAPHORISMS AND KABBALA; SHMA YISRAEL; BENJAMIN BETWEEN KANDINSKIAND WARBURG; "THE MIND HAS NO KNOWLEDGE"; FROM SEPHARDIC TRADITIONAL TO



MODERNSERBIAN/YUGOSLAV LITERATURE; TANGLED FRAGMENTS OF IDENTITYIN A CHANGING WORLD

THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF BABELCHAGALL IN MOSCOW; MOSCOW YIDDISH CHAMBER THEATREDURING 1926; ILYA SELVINSKY AND SOVIET SHOAH POETRYIN THE SPRING OF 1945; JEWISHNESS AS DIFFERENCE IN THE LATESOVIET PERIOD AND THE WORKSOF THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS; CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN-JEWISHLITERATURE AND REINVENTINGOF JEWISH POETICS; BORIS PASTERNAK'S DOCTOR ZHIVAGOIN THE EYES OF ISRAELI WRITERSAND INTELLECTUALS (1958-1960); CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

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 ...

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00064369

Autore

SIRAISI, Nancy G.

Titolo

Avicenna in renaissance Italy : the Canon and medical teaching in Italian university after 1500 / by Nancy Siraisi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 1987

ISBN

06-910513-7-2

Descrizione fisica

XII, 410 p., c. di tav. ; 25 cm

Classificazione

ARA XVIII A

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia