The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture
by Ruth R. Wisse
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"In The Modern Jewish Canon, Wisse takes us on a journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the twentieth century, from Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick. The modern Jewish canon Wisse proposes comprises those books that convey an experience of Jewish actuality, those in which "the authors or characters know and let the reader know that they are Jews," for show more better or worse."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Ruth R. Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
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- The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 809.3 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Fiction
- LCC
- PN842 .W57 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Literary history Jewish literature in various languages
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- Dutch, English
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