Literary Studies / Jewish Literature

This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

The New Spice Box brings together contemporary short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry by a mix of authors offering a window onto new and exciting Jewish writing.

Studying the diary as a genre, this book examines Jewish diary entries written in Occupied France.

Mosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler.

In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi’s cultural identity played in his choices of how to portray his survival, as well as his exposition of topics such as bystander complicity.

Loss, trauma, memory, and, above all, the ties of family and being Jewish are the elements that weave together this panoramic story.

Volume 1 of The New Spice Box is an aromatic blend of poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction by writers who probe all matters Jewish.

The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike.

Developed over fifteen years in a formal course on Hebrew syntax at the University of Toronto, it treats the syntax of the noun, the verb, particles and clauses, with a selection of illustrative examples.

This is the first book to survey all of Klein's poetry, prose, and journalism, published and unpublished, and place it in the context of its times.

This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.

The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.

'A word and an arrow are the same -- both deliver with speedy aim.' From this saying comes the title of this entertaining collection of lively and engaging adages, bons mots, maxims, and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past.

A.M. Klein's reputation as a writer on his poetry and to a lesser extent on his remarkable poetic novel The Second Scroll. But he also wrote many short stories over a period of more than a quarter of a century.This volume bring them together.

This book examines Jewish history against the background of the successive kingdoms which controlled Judea. The author discusses the political situation in Judea and the social and economic conditions in so far as we can know then, and the early literary and religious developments.