The Writer in the Jewish community : an Israeli-North American dialogue / edited by Richard Siegel and Tamar Sofer.
"The Writer in the Jewish Community presents edited selections from the conference of the same name held in October 1988 at the University of California-Berkeley and Stanford University. Also included in the volume is a foreword by cochair Eli Shaltiel (publisher of Am Oved in Israel) and an af...
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Rutherford : London :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
[1993]
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| Series: | Sara F. Yoseloff memorial publications in Judaism and Jewish affairs.
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Table of Contents:
- I write out of an uncreated identity / Harvey Shapiro
- The storyteller as a Jew / David Schuetz
- By the book / Hanoch Bartov
- The story of creation / Meir Shalev
- Text, language, and the hope of redemption / Nessa Rapoport
- Squeezing history into a teacup / Max Apple
- Of polished mirrors / Cynthia Ozick
- Marginality revisited / Ted Solotaroff
- Response to Ted Solotaroff : the end of marginality in Jewish literature / Irving Howe
- Tradition and renewal / Alan Mintz
- What's new in American Jewish writing / Rosellen Brown
- Polemos and polemics / Ruth Almog
- Six forgotten pioneers of Hebrew literature / Hillel Halkin
- On the predominance of poetry in modern Hebrew literature / Meir Wieseltier
- Response to Wieseltier / Amos Oz
- Imagining the other : 1 / Amos Oz
- Imagining the other : 2 / Cynthia Ozick
- The politics of translation : Amichai and Ravikovitch in English / Chana Bloch
- On reading American Jewish writers / Hanoch Bartov
- Afterword : the Jewish writer unmasked / Nessa Rapoport.