Studies in Modern Jewish Literature (A JPS Scholar of Distinction Book)

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―won’t want to miss this remarkable collection.