In the first critical study to consider together the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Edmond Jabes, Gary D. Mole demonstrates and compares the ways in which these writers have been instrumental in raising those issues of Jewishness that have been so central to con…
This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant eng…
Introduction: Liberating captivity: sacred translations of secular narratives -- A pious translation: the multiplicity of call it sleep and Henry Roth's single sin -- Converting books into bodies: unorthodox women and the vanity of art -- An inward eye: Modigliani and the burden…
Jews and the Christian Imagination: Reluctant Witnesses is an interdisciplinary analysis of the ancient Christian myth that casts Jews as a 'witness-people', and this myths's presence in contemporary religious discourse. The book treats a range of diverse products of the Christi…
Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the defining authors in the literature and culture of post-war America. Yet he has long been a polarising figure and throughout his long career he has won the disapproval of an extremely diverse range of public moralists - including, …
Ch. 2 (p. 25-48), "Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism", discusses Black stereotypes of Jews, who were largely identified with Whites, as oppressors. States that antisemitism is linked to Black self-hatred. Notes that stereotypes of Jews in Black literature were less acceptab…
Ch. 2 (p. 25-48), "Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism", discusses Black stereotypes of Jews, who were largely identified with Whites, as oppressors. States that antisemitism is linked to Black self-hatred. Notes that stereotypes of Jews in Black literature were less acceptab…
