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Speaking Truth to Power in Yiddish: A Queer Jewish Literary History 用意第绪语对权力说真话:一部奇怪的犹太文学史

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-05-23 DOI: 10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.2.07

Zohar Weiman‐Kelman

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In Praise of Vulgarity: On Yiddish in Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Di makhsheyfeh" 对粗俗的赞美:论艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格《Di makhsheyfeh》中的意第绪语

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.1.03

Noam Gil

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Daniel and the Origins of Jewish Biblical Interpretation 但以理和犹太圣经解释的起源

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.1.01

Seth L. Sanders

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On the Historical Imaginary of Contemporary Israeli Fiction, or, Postmodernism's Aftermath in Novels by Lilach Netanel and Yiftach Ashkenazi 论当代以色列小说的历史想象，或后现代主义在小说中的影响利拉克·内塔内尔和伊夫塔奇·阿什肯纳兹

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.37.1.06

O. Nir

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The Bad Wife Who Was Good: A Woman as a Way of Life in Genesis Rabbah 17:3 《创世记》拉巴书17章3节中的坏妻:女人的一种生活方式

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.1.02

R. Wollenberg

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Jewish Poetics in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King (1959) 索尔·贝娄《雨王亨德森》中的犹太诗学

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.37.1.04

Larissa Sutherland

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Broken Symbolic: Avot Yeshurun's Palestinian-Erets-Yisra'eli Fabric 破碎的象征:Avot Yeshurun的巴勒斯坦-以色列-以色列的结构

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-30 DOI: 10.2979/PROOFTEXTS.37.1.05

Chen Mandel-Edrei

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“In Quest of Du”: Dialogue in Kafka and Agnon “追寻杜”:卡夫卡与阿格农的对话

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.37.3.14

Omri Ben Yehuda

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Back Matter 回到问题

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.37.2.bm

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Review: Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S. Y. Agnon, by Alan Mintz 书评:《祖先的故事:阅读s·y·阿格农的布查奇故事》，艾伦·明茨著

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PROOFTEXTS-A JOURNAL OF JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.37.3.21

Alter

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