Like a dark rabbi : modern poetry & the Jewish literary imagination /
"Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch...
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| Language: | English |
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Cincinnati :
Hebrew Union College Press
[2019]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvd7w7h5 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: two Shapiros: thoughts on poetry and secular Jewish culture
- Ghosts of Yiddish; or, postvernacularity in Jewish American poetry
- Charles Reznikoff: modernism, diaspora, and the problem of Jewish identity
- Allen Grossman and the poetry of holiness
- Michael Heller: between the sacred and the profane
- Chana Bloch: surfaces and depths
- "The darker wisdom of the Jews": Henry Weinfield's dialectical irony
- Rachel Tzvia back: between Israel and the diaspora
- Dark rabbis and secret Jews
- Afterword: "diasporas of imperfection."