Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction Stavans Ilan
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction Stavans Ilan The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the…
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction Stavans Ilan
The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman.The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible.