History and literature : new readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band /
"Contains close textual readings by leading scholars of a broad range of texts that were originally written in different languages.--Publishers' preface
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Brown Judaic Studies,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / David C. Jacobson
- Two views of Arnold Band / Ross Shideler and Kathleen Komar
- Reflections on Arnold Band, scholar, teacher, mentor / William Cutter
- Dor Dor Vedorshav : of fathers and sons / Michael A. Signer
- Part I : Classical Jewish texts and modern interpreters ; Two literary Talmudic readings / David M. Gordis
- Sefer Ha'aggadah : Triumph or tragedy? / Alan Mintz
- Scroll of fire : an interpretation / Ezra Spicehandler
- Rabbi Nahman's third beggar / Joseph Dan
- Parallel worlds : Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh / David Ellenson
- Third guide for the perpelxed? Simon Rawidowicz "On Interpretation" / David N. Myers
- Part II : S.Y. Agnon ; S.Y. Agnon's "From foe to friend" : Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor / Dan Almagor
- Is Tehillah worthy of her praise? / Risa Domb
- Religious ecstasy, erotic turmoil, and Christian innuendoes in S.Y. Agnon's "Haneshiqah Harishonah" ("First Kiss") / Dalia Dromi
- Flirtation in S.Y. Agnon's Shira / Nancy Ezer
- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa : a hallucinatory vision in S.Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom / Avraham Holtz
- Childish distortions of rabbinic texts in S.Y. Agnon's "Hamitpahat" / David C. Jacobson
- What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death" / Malka Shaked
- Agnon from a medieval perspective / David Stern
- Part III : Diaspora ; Wealthy Señor Miguel : a study of a Sephardic novella / Tamar Alexander
- Imagined Jew : Heinrich Heine's "prinzessin Sabbath" / Michael A. Meyer
- Way of the "Wail of the Wind" : Peretz Smolenskin's latent, worthy Ars Poetica / Yair Mazor
- Assonance and its share in Irony : comments on Sefer Haqabtasanim / David Patterson
- Three Kalikes : a comparative study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis / Gershon Shaked
- Some crosscurrents of linguistic nationalism : M.Y. Berdyczewski on the centrality of Hebrew / William Cutter
- Bialik's "Tsafririm" : Innocnece and experience / Glenda Abramson
- Death in a furnished room : Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's obituaries / Steven J. Zipperstein
- Philip Roth, Jewish identity, and the satire of modern success / Murray Baumgarten
- Part IV : Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel ; Rachel and the female voice : Labor, gender, and the Zionist pioneer vision / Yael Zerubavel
- Revising the past : the image of the idyllic "village" / Gabriella Moscati Steindler
- Why did the river turn red? On the story "Orsha" by Gershon Schofmann / Avner Holtzman
- Prayer of homecoming by Abraham sutzkever / Ruth R. Wisse
- Kernel / Aharon Appelfeld
- Who is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's novel To Remember, To Forget / Nurith Gertz
- Rereading Dan Pagis' "Abba" / Robert K. Baruch
- What learning is most worth? / Walter Ackerman
- Aharon Megged's "Burden" in his portrayals of the effects of Israel's wars / Stanley Nash
- Shading the truth : A.B. Yehoshua's "Facing the Forests" / Gilead Morahg
- Political mothers : Women's voice and the binding of Isaac in Israeli poetry / Ruth Kartun-Blum
- Zionist dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's "A Cow Named Virginia" / Naomi Sokoloff
- Between Genesis and Sophocles : Biblical psychopolitics in A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani / Yael S. Feldman
- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days : a poetic dialogue / Nili Rachel Scharf Gold
- Frigid option : a psychocultural study of the novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev / Yigal Schwartz.