LEADER 03919nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910450873403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-56005-3 010 $a0-19-535024-3 010 $a1-4237-6257-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000408110 035 $a(EBL)281058 035 $a(OCoLC)476025376 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000104025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128132 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000104025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071715 035 $a(PQKB)10192823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281058 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL281058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10263652 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL56005 035 $a(OCoLC)935262388 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000408110 100 $a20030805d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe anthology in Jewish literature$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by David Stern 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-513751-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; Contributors; 1. The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction; I. ANCIENT ISRAEL AND CLASSICAL JUDAISM; 2. Anthology in the Torah and the Question of Deuteronomy; 3. Wisdom and the Anthological Temper; 4. Order, Sequence, and Selection: The Mishnah's Anthological Choices; 5. Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud; 6. Anthology and Polysemy in Classical Midrash; II. THE MIDDLE AGES; 7. The Prayerbook (Siddur) as an Anthology of Judaism; 8. Yalqut Shim'oni and the Medieval Midrashic Anthology; 9. The Hebrew Narrative Anthology in the Middle Ages 327 $a10. Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector MentalityIII. THE MODERN PERIOD; 11. Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre; 12. Sefer Ha'aggadah: Creating a Classic Anthology; 13. The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism's Anthology Projects; 14. Gender and the Anthological Tradition in Modern Yiddish Poetry; 15. "Our Poetry Is Like an Orange Grove": Anthologies of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael; 16. Anthologizing the Vernacular: Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation 327 $a17. Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel18. The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists 330 $aFrom the Talmud to the latest collection of short stories, the anthology has been a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature throughout its history, and has played a seminal role in the creation, transmission, and preservation of Jewish culture since ancient times. And yet of all literary genres the anthology may be the most denigrated and least understood. This volume represents a major first step in the study of the genre and of the different functions it serves as a literary form and as a medium of canonization. The book comprises eighteen essays devoted to anthological works in Jewish lite 606 $aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnthologies 606 $aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJudaism$xLiterary collections$xHistory 606 $aJews$vLiterary collections$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnthologies. 615 0$aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJudaism$xLiterary collections$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xHistory. 676 $a808.8/98924 701 $aStern$b David$f1949-$0971210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450873403321 996 $aThe anthology in Jewish literature$92207706 997 $aUNINA