English Pages []. It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish n. In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanism. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horiz.
This is a story of two assimilated Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Poland in the eye of the Holocaust. The two families. This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the incepti. Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answ.
The idea for the book germinated during a Harry Starr Fellowship at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies CJS , where it was refined by the presence of the other fellows, faculty, and graduate students. Further progress was enabled by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, as well as a year-long research leave from the Emory University Research Committee.
My start in Spanish gave me the confidence to tackle Hebrew, and without Hebrew, Ruth Wisse would not have tapped me as a natural for Yiddish. My excellent language teachers, who also include Rina Winkelman, Irit Aharony, Sheva Zucker, Kalman Weiser, and the incomparable Dovid Braun, have imparted to me the pleasure of the unmediated text, which compensates abundantly for the constant frustrations of roaming among languages and literatures far beyond my native tongue.
I owe an enormous debt to those who taught me to read, in the deepest senses. Philip Fisher demonstrated week after week and book after book the enchantment of a fine and subtle reading. Over the past fifteen years, Ruth Wisse has imparted too many lessons to summarize in this space about how to conduct oneself as a scholar and a human being. So may it be for all of us! With their overlapping curiosities and competencies, Professors Wisse and Septimus made of Jewish literature one capacious garment, mine to don as best I might.
