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The Conversation of Humanity: Franz Rosenzweig on the Secrets of Biblical Narrative 人性的对话:弗朗茨·罗森茨威格谈圣经叙事的秘密

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.3.03

B. Pollock

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Dance as a Tool of Pleasure and Humiliation in I. J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi 在I. J. Singer的《德系犹太人兄弟》中，舞蹈作为愉悦和羞辱的工具

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.3.04

S. Gollance

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Skeletons in the Hebrew Closet: Yiddish Translations of “In the City of Killing” by Y. L. Peretz and Ḥ. N. Bialik and the Conflict over Revival 希伯来壁橱里的骷髅:《在杀戮之城》的意第绪语翻译，作者:Y. L. Peretz和Ḥ。N. Bialik和复兴的冲突

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.3.02

Roni Masel

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Unpacking the Past in Wordless and Braided Comics: Contemporary Mizrahi Graphic Novelists and Traumatic Historical Memories 在无言和编织漫画中打开过去:当代米兹拉希图形小说家和创伤的历史记忆

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.2.05

M. Reingold

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The Land as Woman: Esther Raab and the Afterlife of a Metaphorical System 作为女人的土地:以斯帖·拉布和隐喻系统的来世

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.2.01

Chana Kronfeld

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The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature: A Reading of Maxim Biller, Olga Grjasnowa, and Mati Shemoelof 当代德国犹太文学中对流亡的肯定:解读马克西姆·比勒、奥尔加·格雅斯诺娃和马蒂·谢梅洛夫

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.2.03

Amir Engel

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Before the Beginning: Specters of Monolingualism in Opatoshu and Brenner 《开始之前:奥帕托舒和布伦纳的单语主义幽灵》

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.2.02

Yaakov Herskovitz

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Judas Iscariot: Between Betrayer and Betrayed: On Igal Mossinsohn’s Novel, Judas 加略人犹大:在背叛者与被出卖者之间——论伊加尔·莫辛松的小说《犹大》

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.1.06

Ariel Pridan

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Fragments from the Past: Kaniuk's Witnessing and the Poetics of Displacement 过去的片段:卡尼乌克的见证与流离失所的诗学

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.1.05

A. Maoz

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Was Alterman an Orientalist? 奥特曼是东方主义者吗?

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.1.04

Gideon Nevo

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