The polyphony of Jewish culture / Benjamin Harshav.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harshav, Benjamin, 1928-2015
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Jews > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Hebrew literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Yiddish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jews > Identity.
Physical Description:viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Culture and history
  • Theses on the historical context of the modern Jewish revolution
  • Multilingualism
  • The crisis of Jewish identity : S.Y. Agnon's Only yesterday
  • American poetry in Yiddish and its background
  • The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
  • Art and poetry
  • On the beginnings of Israeli poetry and Yehuda Amichai's quatrains : a memoir
  • The modern Hebrew poem itself : Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner
  • The role of language in Chagall's early paintings
  • A. Sutzkever : life and poetry
  • Note on the systems of Hebrew versification : Bible to present.