Jewish Life and Suffering as Mirrored in English and American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Life and Suffering as Mirrored in English and American Literature write by Franz H. Link. This book was released on 1987. Jewish Life and Suffering as Mirrored in English and American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Suffering as Identity
Suffering as Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suffering as Identity write by Esther Benbassa. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Suffering as Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reaching from biblical times to the present day, Esther Benbassa’s prize-winning exploration of Jewish identity is both epic and comprehensive. She shows how in the Jewish world, the representation and ritualization of suffering have shaped the history of both the people and the religion. Benbassa argues that the nineteenth century gave rise to a Jewish ‘lachrymose’ historiography, and that Jewish history was increasingly seen to be a ‘vale of tears’—a development that has become even more pronounced since the Holocaust. The treatment of the Holocaust in the State of Israel now has the form of a civil religion. In principle within reach of everyone, the ‘duty of memory’ and the uniqueness of the genocide have mitigated for many Jews the loss of other traditions. The Israeli government invokes the memory of the Holocaust to neutralize threats to its interests—ensuring that suffering continues to be a central part of Jewish identity and positioning the State of Israeli as a redemptive force.
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
Lying in Early Modern English Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lying in Early Modern English Culture write by Andrew Hadfield. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Lying in Early Modern English Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying from the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. Unlike most histories of lying, it concentrates on a series of particular events reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying. The book covers a wide range of material such as the trials of Ann Boleyn and Thomas More, the divorce of Frances Howard, and the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; works of literature such as Othello, The Faerie Queene, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The Unfortunate Traveller; works of popular culture such as the herring pamphlet of 1597; and major writings by Castiglione, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale.
Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition
Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition write by Christine A. Meilicke. This book was released on 2005. Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "On a more specific level, this book analyses Rothenberg's use of postmodern "appropriative strategies," such as collage, assemblage, palimpsest, parody, pastiche, forgery, found poetry, and theft. These strategies illustrate the concept, practice, and problematics of appropriation." "Embracing postmodern experimentation and drawing on heterodox Jewish sources, Rothenberg constructs a contemporary American Jewish identity that does not rely on institutionalized Judaism."--Jacket.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
A Reference Guide for English Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Reference Guide for English Studies write by Michael J. Marcuse. This book was released on 2023-11-10. A Reference Guide for English Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
