Includes bibliographical references. "Ruth R. Wisse bibliography": pages 707-715.
Contents:
Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin -- Knocking on heaven's gate : Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz -- Holocaust literature : foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach -- Of Jews and canons : further thoughts / Ilan Stavans -- A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn -- Judging The judgment of Shomer : Jewish literature versus Jewish reading / Justin Cammy -- The judgment of Shomer or the jury trial of all of Shomer's novels / Sholem Aleichem ; translated and annotated by Justin Cammy -- Daniel Deronda : "the Zionist fate in English hands" and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander -- The pleasure of disregarding red lights : a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" / Dan Miron -- The Hershele Maze : Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich -- The open suitcases : Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven yash iz gekumen / Avraham Novershtern -- Seductions and disputations : pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert -- Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies -- Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Androgynous" / Susanne Klingenstein -- Building bridges destined to fall : biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The ice mine / Philip Hollander -- Life/writing : Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- The modern hero as schlemiel : the Swede in Philip Roth's American pastoral / Michael Kimmage -- Innovation by translation : Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in literary history / Ken Frieden -- Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot -- The smoke of civilization : the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di klyatshe / Marc Caplan -- Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick -- Joyce's Yiddish : modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein -- The transmission of poetic anger : an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda -- Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing : the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick -- What's so funny about the Yiddish theater? : comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber -- Naked truths : Avraham Goldfaden's The fanatic or the two kuni-lemls / Alyssa Quint -- Memory as metaphor : Meir Wiener's novel Kolev ashkenazi as critique of the Jewish historical imagination / Mikhail Krutikov -- Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye : at the limits of orthodox literature / Beatrice Lang Caplan -- Chava Rosenfarb and The tree of life / Goldie Morgentaler -- Fiddles on willow trees : the missing Polish link in the Jewish canon / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska -- The Kvetcher in the rye : J.D. Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon / Leah garrett -- Israeli identity in a post-Zionist age / Yaron Peleg -- Bellow's canon / Jonathan Rosen -- The Eicha problem / Dara Horn -- The great explainer / Cynthia Ozick.
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