Synopses & Reviews
This outstanding volume of 26 essays represents a cross-section of the writings of Arnold Band on Jewish literature. Band, a renowned Jewish studies and humanities scholar, writes on such topics as: literature in historic context, interpretations of Hasidic tales and other traditional texts, Zionism, S.Y. Agnon and other important Israeli writers, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the Jewish community. Scholars and students of Jewish studies and literature—particularly Jewish literature—wont want to miss this remarkable collection.
Synopsis
Spanning a period of over 40 years, the essays in this remarkable anthology are a product of a long and illustrious career in Jewish studies. Band has assembled a collection of treatises written in both English and Hebrew, each reflecting the historical period of its composition, from the tumultuous 1960s through the beginning of the new millennium. Band's writings resonate with the array of critical styles found in everything from New Criticism, with its close textual readings, to Structuralism, to Post- Structuralism, and to Cultural Criticism. They cover a wide range of topics, representative of Band's intellectual propensity.