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God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible

2 reviews
Stephen Moore

Stanford University Press, 2002

Queer - and very very good
Here are four papers, of a distinctly dubious nature, that were written by Professor Moore over a number of years (and having gone through a number of versions) that are now presented in conjunction with Moore's interest, no, fixation with the sexual and the aesthetic. These papers are dubious from an academic perspective because although the subjects be biblical, and although Moore be a ...

Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other ...
James Matisoff

Stanford University Press, 2000

In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation. The author analyzes the many kinds of Yiddish “psycho-ostensives”—ranging from blessings and thanks to lamentations and ...

A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)

1 review
Benjamin Sommer

Stanford University Press, 1998

Thoughtful exploration of the Hebrew prophetic tradition
Deutero-Isaiah occupies a significant place in the cast of Hebrew prophets. He is at once of the same generation of the great exilic prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah, while at the same time a seminal figure for the lesser prophets. His quest to legitimize his message comprises a lyric corpus that poetically alludes to his predecessors. Prof. Sommer successfully examines Deutero-Isaiah's ...

Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Galit Hasan-Rokem

Stanford University Press, 2000

Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah . The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, ...

The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)

1 review
Benjamin Harshav

Stanford University Press, 1999

Insight into Yiddish language and culture
In The Meaning Of Yiddish, Benjamin Harshav (Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University) has written an impressive work of scholar erudition and insight into the major aspects of the Yiddish language and culture. Professor Harshav reveals where Yiddsh came from and what it has to offer contemporary Jewish culture, even as it is starting to die out ...

Race, Identity and Myth in the Spanish Speaking Caribbean: Essays on Biculturalism as a Contested Terrain of ...
Francisco Chapman

Chapman & Assoc, Inc, 2002

This is a paperback which contains 204 pages

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)

2 reviews
Amir Fink, Jacob Press

Stanford University Press, 2000

revealing, entertaining, and thought provoking!
I have read the draft of this book, and it is undoubtedly one of the most revealing, enlightening and entertaining writings on modern gay life in Israel. A must not only for readers interested in gay culture, but for anyone who wants to know more about young people - gay or straight - in modern Israel. The book comprises of a tapestry of interviews, whose translation artfully captures all ...

Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Benjamin Harshav

Stanford University Press, 2003

This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall’s life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the US, as well as Germany and Israel, his deep roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and loves, his involvement with the art of the Russian Revolution, with Surrealism, Communism, ...

Language in Time of Revolution (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Benjamin Harshav

Stanford University Press, 1999

This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity as Jews in a new and baffling world. Reviews “With his customary versatility and lucidity Harshav has given us . . . a host of new and ...