History and Literature : New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band / edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson.

Providence, RI : Brown Judaic Studies, 2002-2020.

xxxvi, 506 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; pages cm.

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Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters -- Part II: S. Y. Agnon -- Part III: Diaspora -- Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel.

Two Literary Talmudic Readings -- Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? -- “The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation -- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar -- Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh -- A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation” -- S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor -- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise? -- Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”) -- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira -- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom -- Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat” -- What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death” -- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective -- “The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella -- The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath” -- The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica -- Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim -- Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis -- Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew -- Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience -- Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries -- Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success -- Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision -- Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village” -- Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann -- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever -- The Kernel -- Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget -- Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba” -- What Learning Is Most Worth? -- Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars -- Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests” -- Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry -- Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia” -- Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani -- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue -- The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev.