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...Moshe Simon-Shoshan This article presents a new approach to understanding the discourse of the Babylonian Talmud and the ways it generates meaning. This approach is rooted in Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism as explicated in his “Discourse in the Novel” and is based on a reevaluation...

... former life when his family eventually joins him. Moreover, he finds his wife Gitl’s Old World appearance and behavior so repellent that he divorces her in order to marry Mamie, a flirtatious Americanized sweatshop operator. The divorce frees Gitl to marry Jake’s nemesis, Bernstein, a Talmud scholar...

... (Kerler 1999: 57 – 115; Shmeruk 1981: 147 – 64). Such linguisti- cally modernized editions of the textual canon were more prevalent in Podo- lia, the Hasidic heartland, than in Greater Lithuania, the center of Talmudic learning (Roskies 1974); technical and political conditions also varied greatly...

... Literary Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). Eco, Umberto 1976 A Theory of Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Epstein, Isidore 1961 The Babylonian Talmud (London: Soncino). Fishbane, Michael A. 1985 Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford...

... Zuckerman Bound ( New York : Library of America ). Rothkoff Aaron 1972 “Hebrew Alphabet in Midrash, Talmud, and Kabbalah,” in Encyclopedia Judaica , vol. 8 , edited by Roth Cecil , 747 ( Jerusalem : Keter ). Rozier Gilles 2006 [2003] The Mercy Room , translated...

... (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press). Peterfreund, Stuart 2002 “Not for `Antiquaries,'but for `Philosophers': Isaac D'Israeli's Talmudic Critique and His Talmudical Way with Literature,” in British Romanticism and the Jews:History, Culture, Literature , edited by Shelia Spector, 179 -96 (London: Palgrave...

.... Mendelssohn used the Holy Scriptures as a passage to the German language. This is Ben-Menachem [Mendelssohn], who set aside the Talmud and desecrated the honor of the Torah, making her a despised handmaiden [shifkhah nevazah ][sic ] to teach by means of it the German language” (quoted in Seidman 2006: 176...

... connotative life situations.” According to Harshav (ibid “Yiddish internalized and schematized some essential characteristics of ‘Talmudic’ dialectical argument and questioning, com- bined with typical communicative patterns evolved in the precarious, marginal, Diaspora existence,” and authors like Sholem...

... is a teacher of Polish, and he feels unhappy in the poor household of his parents: a learned, pedantic and schlemiel-like father, Reb Toyvie, a melamed and teacher of Gemara (Talmud) in the town, and an overworked and worri- some, always complaining mother. The core of the novel is an account of the 388...

... inscription).Taleb (veilHoly of Holies.Tables of the Law. Ark of the Covenant. Propriatiatory.—The Bible. Torah. Talmud, Talmu- dic, Talmudist.—Moses. Mosaic Law. Mosaism.—Israelite Consistoire. Customs.—Festival of Passover...

... Books ). Whittingham William , ed. 1969 [1560] The Geneva Bible. A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition , introduction by Berry Lloyd E. ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ). Wimpfheimer Barry Scott 2011 Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories...

... “confessional” works of biblical and Talmudic exegesis. Though the genres share themes and preoccupa- tions, Levinas believes their methodologies to be irreconcilable (see also Kearney 1986: 18). 226 Poetics Today 30:2 study of Levinas and literature. In a chapter entitled “Facing Figures...

... Press). A rhetorical analysis of modern Yiddish literature describing the significant role of the playful and ironic use of argumentative and digressive style associ- ated with biblical, Talmudic, and vernacular discourse in modern Yiddish literary works and in the formation of a modern Jewish...

... like what Freud called ‘‘the narcissism of minor difference The Jews in Persia think of themselves as ancient Assyrians, while the imitators continue the age-old practices of Talmudic textual interpretation. Evoking Ilya Ehrenburg, Shklovsky (ibid.: 194) writes about his Jewish contemporaries...

... to the conventional 12. Oliver Hiob (2012: 348 – 352) evaluates the father’s death sentence in terms of Talmudic law and likewise determines it is inappropriate. Huffmaster † The Success of Failure: Performatives in “The Judgment” 633 death by drowning, the use of the intransitive ertrinken instead...

..., and let everything mirror its absent form” (Krauss 2010 : 278). Just as the book, the oral law that became the Talmud, can only imperfectly replace the Temple because of the latter's absence, the Jewish people, in Weisz's interpretation, can only paradoxically remain who they once were by re-creating...