Booking Passage Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination

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 [more]

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. Y. Agnon, Sholem Aleichem, Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Aharon Appelfeld, Isaac B. Singer, Philip Roth, Auschwitz. 2 copies available.; The Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies Series; 7 x 9; 358 pages; Cover has slight bumping. DJ has very slight rubbing; in a Brodart cover.[less]

This item is printed on demand. "This is a work of immense scholarship...[that] includes medieval Spanish poets like Judah Ha-Levi and the contemporary novelist Philip Roth. [more]

This item is printed on demand. "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 Israe.[less]