Results for "Sokoloff, Naomi B."

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what ... Read More about What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

In recent years, gender studies and feminist thinking have had a growing influence on the study of world literature. But only noe, in this volume, is a range of studies devoted to the field of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Here international scholars bring a diversity of approaches, perspect... Read More about Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew & Yiddish Literature (Jewish Theological Seminary)

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.... Read More about Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making (Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)

The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to th... Read More about Boundaries of Jewish Identity

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what ... Read More about What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.... Read More about Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making (Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)