BOOKS by Sidra Ezrahi

By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature more books like this

by Sidra Ezrahi

The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in "By Words Alone," is a body of literature that ...

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Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination more books like this

by Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the 'poetics of exile and return'. Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center ...

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