History and Literature: New readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band
History and Literature : New readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band /
edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson. -- Providence, RI : Program in
Judaic Studies, Brown University, 2002.
506 pages -- (Brown Judaic studies, no. 334)
Table of contents:
David C. Jacobson: Preface (pp. ix-xi)
Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar: Two views of Arnold Band (pp. xiii-xx)
William Cutter: Reflections on Arnold Band, Scholar, Teacher, Mentor
(pp. xxi-xxxi)
Michael A. Signer : Dor Dor Vedorshav: of fathers and sons (pp. xxxiii-xxxvi)
Part I: Classical Jewish texts and modern interpreters
David M. Gordis : Two literary Talmudic readings (pp. 3-15)
Alan Mintz : Sefer Ha’aggadah : Triumph or tragedy?
(pp. 17-26)
Ezra Spicehandler: “The Scroll of Fire” : an interpretation
(pp. 27-40)
Joseph Dan : Rabbi Nahman’s Third beggar (pp. 41-53)
David Ellenson: Parallel worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei esh
(pp. 55-74)
David N. Myers: A third guide for the perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On interpretation”
(pp. 75-87)
Part II: S. Y. Agnon
Dan Almagor : S. Y. Agnon’s “From foe to friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor
(pp. 91-106)
Risa Domb : Is Tehillah worthy of her praise? (pp. 107-115)
Dalia Dromi: Religious ectasy, erotic turmoil, and Christian innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon’s
“Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”)
(pp. 117-124)
Nancy Ezer : Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon’s Shira
(pp. 125-136)
Avraham Holtz: Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: a hallucinatory vision in S. Y. Agnon’s
Temol Shilshom (pp. 137-145)
David C. Jacobson: Childish distortions of Rabbinic texts in S. Y. Agnon’s
“Hamitpahat” (pp. 147-159)
Malka Shaked : What “Dances” in Agnon’s “Dance of Death” (pp. 161-170)
David Stern: Agnon from a Medieval perspective (pp. 171-185)
Part III: Diaspora
Tamar Alexander: “The wealthy Señor Miguel”: a study of a Sephardic novella
(pp. 189-207)
Michael A. Meyer: The imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine’s “Prinzessin Sabbath”
(pp. 209-221)
Yair Mazor : The way of the “Wail of the wind”:
Peretz Smolenskin ’s latent, worthy ars poetica
(pp. 223-234)
David Patterson: Assonance and its share in irony: comments on
Sefer Haqabtsanim (pp. 235-240)
Gershon Shaked : Three Kalikes: a comparative study of
Mendele , Agnon , and Bashevis
(pp. 241-251)
William Cutter: Some crosscurrents of linguistic nationalism:
M. Y. Berdyczewski on the centrality of Hebrew
(pp. 253-263)
Glenda Abramson: Bialik ’s ”Tsafririm” : innocence and experience
(pp. 265-278)
Steven J. Zipperstein: Death in a furnished room: rereading Isaac Rosenfeld’s Obituaries
(pp. 279-288)
Murray Baumgarten: Philip Roth, Jewish identity, and the satire of modern success
(pp. 289-300) Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel
Yael Zerubavel: Rachel and the female voice: labor, gender, and the Zionist pioneer vision
(pp. 303-317)
Gabriella Moscati Steindler: Revising the past: the image of the idyllic
“Village” (pp. 319-328)
Avner Holtzman : Why did the river turn red? on the story “Orsha” by
Gershon Schofmann (pp. 329-338)
Ruth R. Wisse: A prayer of homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever (pp. 339-349)
Aharon Appelfeld : The Kernel (pp. 351-355)
Nurith Gertz : Who is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz ’s Novel
“To remember, to forget” (pp. 357-367)
Robert K. Baruch: Rereading Dan Pagis ’s “Abba” (pp. 369-377)
Walter Ackerman: What learning is most worth? (pp. 379-388)
Stanley Nash: Aharon Megged ’s “Burden” in his portrayals of the effects of Israel’s wars
(pp. 389-407)
Gilead Morahg: Shading the truth : A. B. Yehoshua ’s
“Facing the forests” (pp. 409-418)
Ruth Kartun Blum : Political mothers: women’s voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli poetry
(pp. 419-438)
Naomi Sokoloff: Zionist dreams and Savyon Liebrecht ’s
“A cow named Virginia” (pp. 439-450)
Yael S. Feldman: Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical psychopolitics in
A. B. Yehoshua ’s Mr. Mani (pp. 451-464)
Nili Rachel Scharf Gold : Amichai ’s Open closed open and Now and in other days : a poetic dialogue
(pp. 465-477)
Yigal Schwartz : The frigid option: a psychocultural study of the novel Love life by
Zeruya Shalev (pp. 479-488)
Publications of Arnold J. Band (pp. 489-496)
Contributors (pp. 497-504)
Permissions (pp. 505-506)
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