TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumgarten,Murray
TI  - City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing 
SN  - 9780674282551
AV  - PS153.J4 
U1  - 809/.8924 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - Jews in literature
KW  - Juifs dans la littérature
KW  - Jüdische Literatur
KW  - Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft
KW  - Villes dans la littérature
KW  - American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
KW  - Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
KW  - Judaism and literature -- United States -- History
KW  - Religion -- General
KW  - Yiddish language -- Influence on foreign languages
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1. An Urban Phenomenon --; 2. Dual Allegiances --; 3. Clothing and Character --; 4. Abishag: The Body's Song --; 5. Community and Modernity: Sholom Aleichem --; 6. Folk Speech and Holy Tongue: Agnon and Borges --; 7. Language Rules --; 8. City Premises --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674282568
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674282568
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674282568/original
ER  -