Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse a book by Alyssa Quint, Justin Daniel Cammy, Rachel Rubinstein, et al.

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Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a starting point her award-winning book The Modern Jewish Canon (2000) and explore an array of topics that touch on aspects of Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.

Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon brings together writers both seasoned and young, from both within and beyond the academy, to reflect the diversity of Wisse's areas of expertise and reading audiences. The volume also includes a translation of one of the first modern texts on the question of Jewish literature, penned in 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Wisse's scholarship. In its richness and heft, Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon itself constitutes an important scholarly achievement in the field of modern Jewish literature.

Product Details

Price

$90.00

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publish Date

January 01, 2009

Pages

750

Dimensions

6.5 X 9.3 X 1.9 inches | 2.95 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9780674025851

About the Author

Alyssa Quint is Professor of Jewish Literature, Princeton University.

Justin Daniel Cammy is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College.

Rachel Rubinstein is Jeremiah Kaplan Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Hampshire College.

Dara Horn is the author of the novels In the Image and The World to Come.

Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Culture, Language, and Literature at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.

Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Jewish literature and American studies at Columbia University. His books include Jewish Comedy and The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem, both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award, and, most recently, American Comics: A History. He lives in New York City.

Hillel Halkin is an acclaimed author of works of nonfiction and fiction, as well as a celebrated translator of contemporary Israeli literature and of Hebrew and Yiddish classics. His essays have appeared in Commentary, The New Republic, The Jewish Review of Books, Mosaic, and other publications, and he has been a columnist for The Jerusalem Report, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and The New York Sun.

Michael Kimmage is professor of history at the Catholic University of America and a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the US Department of State, where he handled the Ukraine/Russia portfolio. He is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism and The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy. He writes regularly for Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, and other publications.

Cynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes.

Jonathan Rosen is a transplanted New Yorker who now lives with his family and rescue dog, Parker, in sunny South Florida. When not writing, he can be found with his family. He is the author of Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies, and its sequel, From Sunset Till Sunrise. He is an administrator of FromtheMixedUpFiles.Com, a site devoted to middle grade books, and a founding member of SpookyMiddleGrade.com, a site devoted to spooky middle grade.

David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also an affiliate of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. With Harriet Murav, he translated the Yiddish writer David Bergelson's novel Judgment. Senderovich has written on contemporary fiction by Russian Jewish émigré authors in the United States including Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, David Bezmozgis, and Irina Reyn.

Jed Dewey Wyrick is Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at California State University, Chico.