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      American Hebraist

      Alan Mintz

      A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by…

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      Banished From Their Father’s Table: Loss of Faith and Hebrew Autobiography

      Alan Mintz

      Details the development of a fresh mode in Hebrew prose narrative - the autobiography. Against the historical background of the Haskalah (Enlightenment), this title explores the work of three key…

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      Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry

      Alan Mintz

      The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history…

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      Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America

      Alan Mintz

      Examines reactions to three films: Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler’s List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the…

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      Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America

      Alan Mintz

      Examines reactions to three films: Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler’s List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the…

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      Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon

      Alan Mintz

      Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon’s A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories…

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      Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature

      Alan Mintz

      A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes.

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      Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature

      Alan L. Mintz

      A study of the history of Jewish exiles and genocide, and the literary expressions that attempt to make sense of these catastrophes.

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      Building a City - Writings on Agnon`s Buczacz in Memory of Alan Mintz

      Sheila E. Jelen, Jeffrey Saks, Wendy Zierler

      The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of…

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      George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation

      Author Alan Mintz (Brandeis University)

      Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or…

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      Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America

      Alan L. Mintz

      This study traces the reception of Israeli literature in America from the 1970s to the present. The author analyzes the influences that have shaped modern Israeli literature and reflects on…

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      Hebrew in America: Perspectives and Prospects

      Alan L Mintz

      In papers originally presented at a conference on [title] held at the U. of Maryland in March 1990, 15 scholars in Judaic studies explore the Jewish attachment to Hebrew in…

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      Full Power Persuasion Skills: Master The Most Effective Methods of Communication Excellence

      Alan Mintz (Professor, Department of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York)

      Become a great communicator. CEO’s, politicians, and industry leaders all know the keys to influencing others. The more powerful they become, the more important it is to possess those masterful…

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      American Hebraist: Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature

      Alan Mintz

      A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by…

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      The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella

      S. Y. Agnon

      Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah.

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      The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella

      S. Y. Agnon

      Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah.

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      Facing the Glass Booth: The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann

      Haim Gouri

      A detailed account of Adolf Eichmann’s trial by the poet and journalist Haim Gouri, who was assigned to cover the event by the Israeli daily newspaper Lamerhav . The trial…

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