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Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

Acknowledging the Holocaust

By: Emily Miller Budick

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Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

Acknowledging the Holocaust

By: Emily Miller Budick

How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and the autobiographical work The Story of My Life, Budick reveals the compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations, and experiences of European Jewish life preceding, during, and after the Second World War. She argues that it is through acknowledging the incompleteness of our knowledge and understanding of the catastrophe that Appelfeld's fiction produces not only its stunning aesthetic power but its affirmation and faith in both the human and the divine. This beautifully written book provides a moving introduction to the work of an important and powerful writer and an enlightening meditation on how fictional texts deepen our understanding of historical events. Jewish Literature and Culture -- Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor

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224

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Indiana University Press

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0253111064

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9780253111067

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

By: Emily Miller Budick

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The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

By: Emily Miller Budick

Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.

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264

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Indiana University Press

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0253016320

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9780253016324

Edith Stein and Regina Jonas

Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps

By: Emily Leah Silverman

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Edith Stein and Regina Jonas

Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps

By: Emily Leah Silverman

This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Both were religious visionaries viewed as iconoclasts in their own times. Stein, the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, claimed her Jewish identity while she was still a cloistered Carmelite nun. Jonas, the first woman rabbi in Jewish history, served as a rabbi in Berlin and Theresienstadt concentration camp. A study of a contemplative and a rabbi, the book ranges across many spiritual and theological questions, not least it offers a remarkable exploration of the theology of spiritual resistance. For Stein, this meant redemption and the transmutation of suffering on the cross; for Jonas, acts of compassion bring the face of God into our presence.

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283

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Routledge

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1317546202

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9781317546207

From Agent to Spectator

Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy

By: Emily Allen-Hornblower

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From Agent to Spectator

Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy

By: Emily Allen-Hornblower

This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer’s Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a specific subset of characters: those who are put in the position of spectator to (and, often, commentator on) their own deed(s). By their very nature, protagonists are confined to the role of witness to the suffering (or deaths) they have caused only for brief stretches of time — often a single scene or even just the length of a speech — but every instance is of central importance, not just to our understanding of the characters in question, but also to the articulation of fundamental themes within the poetic works under examination. As they shift from the status of agent to that of witness, these protagonists, qua spectators to the consequences of their actions, give voice to, dramatize, and enact the tragic motifs of human helplessness and mortal fallibility that lie at the core of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy and that define the human condition, in a manner that leads the audience looking on to ponder their own.

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344

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110430045

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9783110430042

Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

A Guide for the Puzzled Consumer

By: Rami Aronzon,Emily Budick

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Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

A Guide for the Puzzled Consumer

By: Rami Aronzon,Emily Budick

This book helps the patient of psychotherapeutic intervention to stay with the therapy beyond both the initial satisfactions and the initial frustrations that the process entails. It serves as a guide for patients of psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy.

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215

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Routledge

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0429918275

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9780429918278

Mosaic Fictions

Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War

By: Emily Robins Sharpe

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Mosaic Fictions

Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War

By: Emily Robins Sharpe

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the book focuses on the extensive contributions of Jewish Canadian authors as they articulate the stakes of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9) in the language of a nascent North American multiculturalism. Placing Jewish Canadian writers within overlapping North American networks of Jewish, Black, immigrant, female, and queer writers challenges the national distinctions that dominate current critical approaches to Anglophone Spanish Civil War literature. Reframing the narrative of Spain’s noble but tragic struggle against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, the book demonstrates how marginalized North American supporters of the Spanish Republic crafted narratives of inclusive citizenship amidst a national crisis not entirely their own. Mosaic Fictions examines texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present to illuminate the integral connections between Canada’s developing national identity and global leftist action.

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241

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University of Toronto Press

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1487513151

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9781487513153

Against World Literature

On the Politics of Untranslatability

By: Emily Apter

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Against World Literature

On the Politics of Untranslatability

By: Emily Apter

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant paradigm in the humanities, one grounded in market-driven notions of readability and universal appeal—Apter proposes a plurality of “world literatures” oriented around philosophical concepts and geopolitical pressure points. The history and theory of the language that constructs World Literature is critically examined with a special focus on Weltliteratur, literary world systems, narrative ecosystems, language borders and checkpoints, theologies of translation, and planetary devolution in a book set to revolutionize the discipline of comparative literature.

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385

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Verso Books

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1844679705

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9781844679706

The Jerusalem Diet

Guided Imagery and the Personal Path to Weight Control

By: Judith Besserman,Emily Budick

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The Jerusalem Diet

Guided Imagery and the Personal Path to Weight Control

By: Judith Besserman,Emily Budick

This is a book about why we eat, and why we diet; why we overeat and then deprive ourselves; why, finally, we fail to feed and satisfy the person we really wish ourselves to be. This is not a diet book in any conventional sense of the word, even though it contains many practical tips for losing weight and maintaining weight loss. Rather, it is a book about appetite. It is about our appetite for life, and how we can maintain it, drawing on the tools of guided imagery taught by Jerusalem psychotherapist and spiritual guide Colette Aboulker-Muskat.

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212

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Gefen Books

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9652294012

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9789652294012

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Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

The Subject of Holocaust Fiction

Edith Stein and Regina Jonas

Edith Stein and Regina Jonas

From Agent to Spectator

From Agent to Spectator

Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

Mosaic Fictions

Mosaic Fictions

Against World Literature

Against World Literature

The Jerusalem Diet

The Jerusalem Diet

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