About this title: 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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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2-2-00
ISBN-13:9780520206458ISBN:0520206452
Description: FINE. Clean, crisp, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket, possible remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! 1.7 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520206458ISBN:0520206452
Description: New. "This is a work of immense scholarship...[that] includes medieval Spanish poets like Judah Ha-Levi and the contemporary novelist Philip Roth. "Booking Passage is about a return to sacred places, and the sacred in Israel. The dream of 'homecoming'... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Third Printing; Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520206458ISBN:0520206452
Description: New in Near Fine dust jacket. 0520206452. Cover is blue with silver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. Printed on paper that meets the "Permanence of Paper" requirements [alkaline paper]. This is a NEW book. In a wide ranging exploration of the poetics of exile and homecoming as they have been created and reflected in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature, Ezrahi shows how all of this has changed during the past hundred years. Includes sections on Yehuda Halevi; S. Y. Abramovitsh, S. ... read more
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