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Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature
A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes. In this book Alan...
This book examines reactions to three films that deal with the Holocaust, and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust i...
Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America
Reflects the rise of literature in modern-day Israel and the problematic reception of literature in America and within the American Jewish community. ...
Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature
A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaus...
Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did...
Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon
Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historical...