TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stavans,Ilan
TI  - The inveterate dreamer: essays and conversations on Jewish culture 
T2  - Texts & contexts
SN  - 9780803242845
AV  - DS113 .S73 2001eb
U1  - 305.892/4 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Lincoln, NE
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sephardim
KW  - Jewish authors
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Séfarades
KW  - Écrivains juifs
KW  - Littérature juive
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Identität
KW  - gnd
KW  - Nationalbewusstsein
KW  - Jüdische Literatur
KW  - Geistesleben
KW  - Juden
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index; pt. I. Language & Tradition -- Language and Tradition -- pt. 2. Essays -- George Steiner's Errata -- Man of Ashes: Novelizing the Holocaust? -- Arthur A. Cohen: Reader -- Mestizo -- A.B. Yehoshua -- Stones and Ideas: David Hare's Via Dolorosa -- Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos -- Nathan Englander -- Danilo Kis in Buenos Aires -- Harold Bloom: A Microprofile -- On Moacyr Scliar -- Elias Canetti: Sephardic Master -- Hotel Bolivia -- On Lionel Trilling -- Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist -- Isaac Babel: Tales of Ambivalence -- Marcos Aguinis: The Inveterate Dreamer -- Peter Nadas: The End of a Family Story -- Kafka's Last Letter: A Heaven without Crows -- Arthur Schnitzler and Stanley Kubrick -- Borges's Jewish "Yo" -- The Verbal Quest -- Museum Fever -- David Roskies's Shtetl -- The Name -- Walter Benjamin: The Demon of Inspiration -- Isaac Goldemberg's Mixed Blood -- pt. 3. Conversations -- Norman Manca -- Joseph Brodsky -- Ariel Dorfman -- pt. 4. In the First Person -- Hanukkah: A Brief Reminiscence -- September 19, 1985 -- A Matter of Choice: Response to a Questionnaire -- Lost in Translation: An Autobiographical Essay -- pt. 5. Memory & Literature -- Memory and Literature; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue-from German and Russian to English and Portuguese-does as well. These writers are often at the crossroad between the two traditions: their Jewish one and their own national one. Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? Stavans explores the problems and prospects of representing Jewish experiences through such media as Holocaust memoirs and Jewish museums; astutely comments on well-known intellectual figures, including Lionel Trilling, Isaac Babel, Primo Levi, Harold Bloom, and Walter Benjamin; engages in memorable conversations with Norman Manea, Joseph Brodsky, and Ariel Dorfman; and offers compelling glimpses of revelatory moments in his own life
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