Analyzes poetry written in the ghettos and concentration camps, with special emphasis on the works of Abraham Sutzkever (Vilna) and Władysław Szlengel (Warsaw). Contends that the underlying principle in most of this poetry was to offer testimony, but it also indicates the spirit…
A study of the effects of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the search for Jewish identity on Anglo-Jewish writers. Pre-World War II literature reflected the antisemitism of working-class Jewish districts, while many postwar writers describe the inability of middle-class Jews to …
The unrequited Eros : Michelangelo and the Jewish love for Italy -- The dream of the moving Moses : Michelangelo and Jewish statue-love -- Fragments of desire : Michelangelo and the aesthetics of Jewish thought.
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an ""unrequit…