After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers
by Alter, Robert
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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5x5.9x1.2in. light foxing to edges of text block, name on front pastedown, dust jacket with small tears at head of spine and top and bottom of folds. Dust jacket in clear protector.
Contents: I. Varieties of Jewish Experience (Jewish Dreams and Nightmares, Sentimentalizing the Jew, The Apocalyptic Temper, Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish Imagination, Hebrew Literature and the Paradox of Survival), II. Four Writers (Saul Bellow: A Dissent from Modernism, Bernard Malamud: Jewishness as Metaphor, S. Y. Agnon: The Alphabet of Holiness, Elie Wiesel: Between Hangman and Victim), III. The Israeli Scene (Confronting the Holocaust, The Israel Novel: 1. "The Two Generations" (1962), "Language and Realism" (1966), The Days of Ziklag -- In Search of a Cultural Past, The Kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky, Poetry in Israel).
256pp 1.02lb 8.5x5.9x1.2in
Contents: I. Varieties of Jewish Experience (Jewish Dreams and Nightmares, Sentimentalizing the Jew, The Apocalyptic Temper, Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish Imagination, Hebrew Literature and the Paradox of Survival), II. Four Writers (Saul Bellow: A Dissent from Modernism, Bernard Malamud: Jewishness as Metaphor, S. Y. Agnon: The Alphabet of Holiness, Elie Wiesel: Between Hangman and Victim), III. The Israeli Scene (Confronting the Holocaust, The Israel Novel: 1. "The Two Generations" (1962), "Language and Realism" (1966), The Days of Ziklag -- In Search of a Cultural Past, The Kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky, Poetry in Israel).
256pp 1.02lb 8.5x5.9x1.2in
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- Title
- After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers
- Author
- Alter, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8.5x5.9x1.2in
- Weight
- 1.02 lbs
- Keywords
- Jewish Writers
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- Miscellaneous;
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