Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon : Essays on

Ruth R. Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, Wisse's colleagues pay tribute to her with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature. Inspired by her award-winning book, The Modern Jewish Canon, Wisse's fellow scholars take up many questions raised by her definition of Jewish canonicity, while offering new readings of such disparate writers as George Eliot, Isaac Babel, J. D. Salinger, S. Y. Agnon, Philip Roth, and many others.

Introduction	p. 1
Making a Canon
Writing Jewish	p. 11
Knocking on Heaven's Gate: Hebrew Literature and Wisse's Canon	p. 23
Holocaust Literature: Foreshadowings and Shadotoings	p. 35
Of Jews and Canons: Further Thoughts	p. 55
A Jewish Artistic Canon	p. 61
Judging The Judgment of Shomer: Jewish Literature versus Jewish Reading	p. 85
The Judgment of Shomer or The Jury Trial of All of Shomer's Novels	p. 129
Elaborations: Reading Wisse's Canonical Authors
Daniel Deronda: "The Zionist Fate in English Hands" and The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews	p. 189
The Pleasure of Disregarding Red Lights: A Reading of Sholem Aleichem's Monologue "A Nisref"	p. 201
The Hershele Maze: Isaac Babel and His Ghost Reader	p. 233
The Open Suitcases: Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven Yash Iz Gekumen	p. 255
Seductions and Disputations: Pseudo-Dialogues in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer	p. 299
Gimpel the Simple and on Reading from Right to Left	p. 319
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Short Story "Androgynous"	p. 341
Building Bridges Destined to Fall: Biological and Literary Paternity in Appelfeld's The Ice Mine	p. 357
Life/Writing: Aharon Appelfeld's Autobiographical Work and the Modern Jewish Canon	p. 371
Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the Unspeakable	p. 387
The Modern Hero as Schlemiel: The Swede in Philip Roth's American Pastoral	p. 401
Conversations: Across Canons and Between Texts
Innovation by Translation: Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in Literary History	p. 417
Creating Yiddish Dialogue for "The First Modern Yiddish Comedy"	p. 427
The Smoke of Civilization: The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di Klyatshe	p. 445
Yiddish Canon Consciousness and the Dionysiac Spirit of Music	p. 467
Joyce's Yiddish: Modernism, Translation, and the Jews	p. 487
The Transmission of Poetic Anger: An Unexploded Shell in the Jewish Canon	p. 505
Guilt, Mourning, Idol Worship, and Golem Writing: Tne Symptoms of a Jewish Literary Canon	p. 517
Interventions: Expanding Wisse's Canon
What's So Funny about Yiddish Theater? Comedy and the Origins of Yiddish Drama	p. 535
Naked Truths: Avrom Goldfaden's The Fanatic or the Two Kuni-Lemls	p. 551
Memory as Metaphor: Meir Wiener's Novel Kolev Ashkenazi as Critique of the Jewish Historical Imagination	p. 579
Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye: At the Limits of Orthodox Literature	p. 599
Chava Rosenfarb and The Tree of Life	p. 613
Fiddles on Willow Trees: The Missing Polish Link in the Jewish Canon	p. 627
The Kvetcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger and Challenges to the Modern Jewish Canon	p. 645
Israeli Identity in a Post-Zionist Age	p. 661
Writers, Critics, and Canons
Bellow's Canon	p. 677
The Eicha Problem	p. 687
The Grand Explainer	p. 701
Ruth Wisse Bibliography	p. 707
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