| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) |
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Introduction : modern Jewish culture as a system of myths / Eli Yassif -- Social memory, history, and British Jewish identity / David Cesarani -- Myth and identity : the case of Latrun, 1948 / Anita Shapira -- "Community with a conscience" : myth or reality? / Milton Shain and Sally Frankental -- The myth of masculinity reflected in Israeli cinema / Nurith Gertz -- "So Sarah laughed to herself" / Dan Urian -- Lest we forget! The Holocaust in Jewish historical consciousness and modern Jewish identities / Jonathan Webber -- Redemption from the Orient / Tudor Parfitt -- From ancient to modern Jewish mythologies / Eli Yassif -- The myth of life's supremacy over death : was Judaism always more concerned with life than with death? / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Franz Kafka : the unsinging singer / Matthew Olshan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Jews -- Identity.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abramson, Glenda, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780878204748 |
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0878204741 |
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