Alan Mintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Mintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintz |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Future of Jewish American Literature
When it comes to Jewish American literature, not to mention American literature in general, I confess to being a recovering snob. In graduate school my subject was Victorian fiction. With Austen, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, and George Eliot in my stable, I could not see how my friends who were studying American literature could even think about getting in the horse race. When I left English for Hebrew literature, I evinced a simila…
Writing about Ourselves
Writing about Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern Alan Mintz (bio) Keywords Alan Mintz, Writing about Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern, Marcus Moseley, Autobiography, Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 650. …
Between Exile and Return
Banished From Their Father's Table
In this work of literary history and criticism, Alan Mintz details the development of a new mode in Hebrew prose narrative-the autobiography. Against the historical background of the Haskalah (Enlightenment), Mintz explores the work of three key writers: M. Z. Feierberg, M. Y. Berdichevsky, and Y. H. Brenner. At the turn of the century, these Hebrew writers found in autobiography a way of telling the truth about the realities of the self, its inn…
"Feldman's "Gabriel Preil
Hurban
The Russian Pogroms in Hebrew Literature and the Subversion of the Martyrological Ideal
The developments triggered or accelerated by the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881–1882 in Russia form a panorama of East European Jewish history at the end of the century: Zionism, the Bund, mass emigration and mass pauperization. The role of Hebrew literature in responding to these pogroms as well as to the later round of violence between 1903 and 1905 is significant for two reasons. In its own setting, Hebrew literature is crucial to an analysis of …
Guenzburg, Lilienblum, and the Shape of Haskalah Autobiography
Haskalah autobiography, as S. Werses has surveyed it, is a wide field which includes such well known figures as I. S. Reggio, S. D. Luzzatto, M. H. Letteris, A. Gottlober, S. Y. Fuenn, J. L. Gordon, M. A.Guenzburg, and M. L. Lilienblum. The fact that these names are well known—and known to us from works other than their autobiographies—is significant. Most of these works are accounts of the author's literary and cultural activity, and they intere…
Mordecai Zev Feierberg and the Reveries of Redemption
A shared phenomenon in the prose fiction of Western literatures in the late nineteenth century is the exploration of individual consciousness dissociated from collective existence. Although individual consciousness had been at the center of the fictional enterprise from the beginning, forming a first condition for the rise of the novel as genre, in the novel of sentiment and in the realistic novel the inner life of individual characters was large…
Between Exile and Return
The Russian Pogroms in Hebrew Literature and the Subversion of the Martyrological Ideal
The developments triggered or accelerated by the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881–1882 in Russia form a panorama of East European Jewish history at the end of the century: Zionism, the Bund, mass emigration and mass pauperization. The role of Hebrew literature in responding to these pogroms as well as to the later round of violence between 1903 and 1905 is significant for two reasons. In its own setting, Hebrew literature is crucial to an analysis of …
Guenzburg, Lilienblum, and the Shape of Haskalah Autobiography
Haskalah autobiography, as S. Werses has surveyed it, is a wide field which includes such well known figures as I. S. Reggio, S. D. Luzzatto, M. H. Letteris, A. Gottlober, S. Y. Fuenn, J. L. Gordon, M. A.Guenzburg, and M. L. Lilienblum. The fact that these names are well known—and known to us from works other than their autobiographies—is significant. Most of these works are accounts of the author's literary and cultural activity, and they intere…
Mordecai Zev Feierberg and the Reveries of Redemption
A shared phenomenon in the prose fiction of Western literatures in the late nineteenth century is the exploration of individual consciousness dissociated from collective existence. Although individual consciousness had been at the center of the fictional enterprise from the beginning, forming a first condition for the rise of the novel as genre, in the novel of sentiment and in the realistic novel the inner life of individual characters was large…
Guenzburg, Lilienblum, and the Shape of Haskalah Autobiography
Haskalah autobiography, as S. Werses has surveyed it, is a wide field which includes such well known figures as I. S. Reggio, S. D. Luzzatto, M. H. Letteris, A. Gottlober, S. Y. Fuenn, J. L. Gordon, M. A.Guenzburg, and M. L. Lilienblum. The fact that these names are well known—and known to us from works other than their autobiographies—is significant. Most of these works are accounts of the author's literary and cultural activity, and they intere…
The Russian Pogroms in Hebrew Literature and the Subversion of the Martyrological Ideal
The developments triggered or accelerated by the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881–1882 in Russia form a panorama of East European Jewish history at the end of the century: Zionism, the Bund, mass emigration and mass pauperization. The role of Hebrew literature in responding to these pogroms as well as to the later round of violence between 1903 and 1905 is significant for two reasons. In its own setting, Hebrew literature is crucial to an analysis of …
Hurban
"Feldman's "Gabriel Preil
Banished From Their Father's Table
In this work of literary history and criticism, Alan Mintz details the development of a new mode in Hebrew prose narrative-the autobiography. Against the historical background of the Haskalah (Enlightenment), Mintz explores the work of three key writers: M. Z. Feierberg, M. Y. Berdichevsky, and Y. H. Brenner. At the turn of the century, these Hebrew writers found in autobiography a way of telling the truth about the realities of the self, its inn…
Between Exile and Return
Writing about Ourselves
Writing about Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern Alan Mintz (bio) Keywords Alan Mintz, Writing about Ourselves: Jewish Autobiography, Modern and Premodern, Marcus Moseley, Autobiography, Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography Marcus Moseley. Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 650. …
The Future of Jewish American Literature
When it comes to Jewish American literature, not to mention American literature in general, I confess to being a recovering snob. In graduate school my subject was Victorian fiction. With Austen, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, and George Eliot in my stable, I could not see how my friends who were studying American literature could even think about getting in the horse race. When I left English for Hebrew literature, I evinced a simila…
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