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…
Publisher's description: Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. The texts examined include juvenile fiction and picture books and understudied nonfiction accounts such as narrative about …
Publisher's description: Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. The texts examined include juvenile fiction and picture books and understudied nonfiction accounts such as narrative about …
This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overv…
This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overv…