[PDF] Hebrew Short Stories1 eBook

Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.

Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Short stories, Hebrew
ISBN : 9780192880390

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"This collection of Hebrew short stories contains the work of the great modern Hebrew prose writers . . . in Europe and Israel. With consistently good translations and an excellent introduction and notes by editor Abramson, the work begins with Sefarim in the beginning of the twentieth century and includes contemporary writers and lesser-known women and Sephardic authors. . . . A superb collection".--LIBRARY JOURNAL.

Author : Lewis Glinert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691183090

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The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.

Author : Gershon Shaked
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Hebrew fiction
ISBN :

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Gershon Shaked's history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the emergence and development of a literature "against all odds"--from its European roots in the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to the flowering of a literary culture on Israeli soil from the founding of the State through the 1990s. The product of more than 20 years of research, it is unique in its scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers from Mendele Mokher Seforim, I. L. Peretz, and Haim Nahman Bialik through Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Aharon Appelfeld, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Amos Oz, and A. B. Yehoshua, to the recent writings of David Grossman, Meir Shalev, and Orly Castel-Bloom. Through detailed discussions of themes and style in specific texts, Shaked conveys the richness of the Hebrew literary tradition. At the same time, through biographical surveys, historical observations, and socio-cultural and political analyses, he illuminates the relationship of these writings to the context in which they were produced, revealing the complex intertextual play between Hebrew literature and life.

Author : Etgar Keret
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 159463324X

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Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.

Author : Joseph R. Hacker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081220509X

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The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews—certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brought to the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, particularly in Italy, was greater interaction between Jews and Christians in the production and dissemination of books. Starting in the early sixteenth century, the locus of production for Jewish books in many places in Italy was in Christian-owned print shops, with Jews and Christians collaborating on the editorial and technical processes of book production. As this Jewish-Christian collaboration often took place under conditions of control by Christians (for example, the involvement of Christian typesetters and printers, expurgation and censorship of Hebrew texts, and state control of Hebrew printing), its study opens up an important set of questions about the role that Christians played in shaping Jewish culture. Presenting new research by an international group of scholars, this book represents a step toward a fuller understanding of Jewish book history. Individual essays focus on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. Topics include the activities of scribes and printers, the creation of new types of literature and the transformation of canonical works in the era of print, the external and internal censorship of Hebrew books, and the reading interests of Jews. An introduction summarizes the state of scholarship in the field and offers an overview of the transition from manuscript to print in this period.

Author : Ellen Frankel
Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781556709418

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Designed to bring the wisdom of centuries to a wide audience, this illustrated Hebrew Bible includes 40 selections from the Torah and 35 from Prophets and Writings.