The Anthology in Jewish Literature.
Title:
The Anthology in Jewish Literature.
Author:
Stern, David.
ISBN:
9780195350241
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1. The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction -- I. ANCIENT ISRAEL AND CLASSICAL JUDAISM -- 2. Anthology in the Torah and the Question of Deuteronomy -- 3. Wisdom and the Anthological Temper -- 4. Order, Sequence, and Selection: The Mishnah's Anthological Choices -- 5. Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud -- 6. Anthology and Polysemy in Classical Midrash -- II. THE MIDDLE AGES -- 7. The Prayerbook (Siddur) as an Anthology of Judaism -- 8. Yalqut Shim'oni and the Medieval Midrashic Anthology -- 9. The Hebrew Narrative Anthology in the Middle Ages -- 10. Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector Mentality -- III. THE MODERN PERIOD -- 11. Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre -- 12. Sefer Ha'aggadah: Creating a Classic Anthology -- 13. The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism's Anthology Projects -- 14. Gender and the Anthological Tradition in Modern Yiddish Poetry -- 15. "Our Poetry Is Like an Orange Grove": Anthologies of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael -- 16. Anthologizing the Vernacular: Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation -- 17. Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel -- 18. The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists.
Abstract:
From the Talmud to the latest collection of short stories, the anthology has been a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature throughout its history, and has played a seminal role in the creation, transmission, and preservation of Jewish culture since ancient times. And yet of all literary genres the anthology may be the most denigrated and least understood. This volume represents a major first step in the study of the genre and of the different functions it serves as a literary form and as a medium of canonization. The book comprises eighteen essays devoted to anthological works in Jewish literature from the Bible to the present - some never before discussed by modern scholarship. Taken together, they effectively define an entirely new field of study and rehabilitate a literary genre whose importance has not previously been recognized.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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