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...Shachar Pinsker This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish—as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a “postvernacular”—operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I...

... with салон (salon); German and Hebrew translations also use an analogue to this term. We have chosen private chamber over boudoir with the understanding, affirmed by Emerson, that Bakhtin's concept of the private chamber does not carry the erotic connotations of boudoir . Bakhtin ( 1981 : 123–25, 247...

... . London : Faber & Faber . Hever Hannan 2017 “ Opposing Identity Politics and Venturing Beyond It: Following Carol Jacobs on The Piano ” (in Hebrew). Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies 17 : 443 – 53 . Jacobs Carol 1994 “ Playing Jane...

...Ken Frieden Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...

... community in the Holocaust and the multilingual composition of Yiddish as a fusion language that crosses lexicons and alphabets. By invoking or embedding Yiddish in non-Yiddish writing, whether in its original Hebrew letters or in transliteration, authors emphasize the characters' and the reader's encounter...

... in exile, citing past models, from Dante to the Hebrew Poetic Renaissance in the Russian empire at the turn of the twentieth century. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Andreev, Nikolai 1957 “A. M. Remizov,” Grani 34 –35: 202 -14. Auerbach, Erich 1969...

... to the work of the Israeli poet, Avot Yeshurun—in particular, how the mother tongue underlying his Hebrew writing forms a subversive tradition and, as such,fulfills new, unprecedented roles in his poetry. I discuss the ways in which the montage (of words, perspectives, languages, and cultural worlds...

... talk, and Hasidic speech with parody. Not until 1864–66, however, did the new orality enter its second phase, when the Hebrew writer Shalom-Yankev Abramovitsh fashioned an autonomous Yiddish-speaking voice and manipulated the Jewish textual tradition at will. Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz further...

... translations, Einspruch produced a version that, in more fully mobilizing the Hebrew components of Yiddish, was designed to remind his Jewish readers that Christianity emerged in a Jewish context. This translation style also reflected and even embodied new trends in the conceptualization of conversion from...

... miniseries Eagles (Hebrew, Nevelot ; slang, “bastards”). In an interpretive intertextual reading, it reveals how one of Gaon's famous embodiments, the fictional character of Kazablan, is reincarnated in the text. Kazablan has become a symbol of ethnic discrimination in Jewish-Israeli society because of his...

...Manar H. Makhoul Abstract Stepping beyond prior analyses of Sayed Kashua's work, this article examines his most recent novel Track Changes (2017) as a turning point in his career. It reveals a shift in his relationship with Hebrew and his engagement with Palestinian memory, both personal...

... of largeness]: Theory and Practice in Uri Zvi Grinberg’s Expressionist Poetry. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibutz Ha-Meuchad, In Hebrew. Structuralist Poetics in Israel (with Ziva Ben-Porat). Papers on Poetics and Semiotics No. . Tel Aviv University. (In Portuguese as La Poetica e Estru- turalismo em Israel...

... groundbreaking work (theoretical and in- stitutional), ‘‘all of us came out of the folds of his overcoat Four projects have sprung from this realization: the publication of his collected works in Hebrew, reedited and occasionally revised by the author (two out of five planned volumes have appeared...

... University Press ). Even-Zohar Itamar Harshav Benjamin , eds. 1986 “Hebrew and Yiddish: Literature, Language, Culture,” Special issue , Hasifrut 35 – 36 . Fishman Johsua A. 1981 “The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword,” in Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish...

..., such as Classic Yiddish Fiction (1995) and Classic Yiddish Stories (2004), his most recent book and articles focus on the interrelations between Yiddish, Hebrew, and German in the early nineteenth century. His other books include anthologies of Yiddish literature in translation such as Tales of Mendele...

... and Edd W. Parks, 460 -62 (New York:Norton). Leech, Geoffrey 1974 Semantics (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin). Levin, Israel 1963 Samuel Hannagid: His Life and Poetry (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad). Meyer, Leonard B. 1956 Emotion and Meaning in Music (Chicago: University...

... Relations in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature: A Pre- liminary Sketch, Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK: Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations). Bergelson, David 2008 [1913] The End of Everything, edited, translated, and introduced by Joseph Sherman, New Yiddish Library...

... Essays by M.M. Bakhtin , edited by Holquist Michael . Austin : University of Texas Press . Bar-Yosef Hamutal . 1994 . “ Romanticism and Decadence in the Literature of the Hebrew Revival .” Comparative Literature 46 , no. 2 : 146 – 81 . Blasing Mutlu Konuk . 2007 . Lyric...