Michael P Kramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 450407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Kramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kramer |
| SIGNATURE | KRAMER M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The raison d'être of "The New Colossus"
Combining textual analysis, cultural contextualization, and the history of ideas, this essay excavates the complex "literal sense" of Emma Lazarus's iconic sonnet, "The New Colossus." Beginning with the deliberate misreading of the statue's intended and acknowledged signification and noting the poem's network of contrarieties, the essay dwells on the contrast between the "wretched refuse" on Ward's Island and decadent Gilded Age exhibition where …
Toward a Guide to Jewish American Periodicals
Taking a look at Isaac Mayer Wise’s 1893 lecture “Introduction to a Bibliography of the Jewish Periodical Press,” this is an introduction to nine short essays that describe a variety of Jewish American periodicals—written in different languages, addressed to different audiences, from the late nineteenth century to the present day—that together offer a small sampling of what a full-blown guide to Jewish American periodicals might look like. This a…
The Periodical Origins of Jewish American Literature
An argument can be made that the history of Jewish American literature begins on July 6, 1854, when the first issue of Isaac Mayer Wise’s weekly The Israelite rolled off the presses of Dr. Charles F. Schmidt & Co., in Cincinnati, and I’d like to elaborate that argument as an introduction to this collection of essays.1 True, I myself have argued otherwise about the origins of Jewish American literature, in this journal and elsewhere, and I don’t m…
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature: Three Prequels
When he began putting together The Cambridge History of American Literature in the mid-1980s, Sacvan Bercovitch looked back to its predecessor, Robert Spiller’s Literary History of the United States, which had appeared four decades earlier. He called Spiller’s volume “monumental,” but noted that “the need for a new American literary history seems clear and unexceptionable.” “Besides,” Bercovitch continued, “as Spiller himself then pointed out, ev…
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma
Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways
Book Review| January 01 2015 Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways Roy, Olivier, Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, trans. Schwartz, Ros. (London: Hurst, 2010), 259 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 104. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818093 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
Against the Tide
A brief overview of the earliest scholarship on early Jewish American history and literature (including Cyrus Adler, Mayer Kayserling, Max J. Kohler, George Alexander Kohut, Isaac Markens, Oscar Straus, and Simon Wolf) is offered as an introduction to “Before the Flood,” a special issue of SAJL that presents recent, innovative scholarship on early Jewish American literature
Acts of Assimilation: The Invention of Jewish American Literary History
Taking as its point of departure Irving Howe's much maligned prediction of the inevitable demise of Jewish American literature after his own celebrated generation, this essay asks us to not to disprove Howe by looking forward to the current crop of talented writers, as has been the tendency in Jewish American literary criticism, but rather to look back to establish the literary tradition that Howe constructed and eulogized. The essay identifies t…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Book Review| January 01 2013 The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere Butler, Judith, Habermas, Jürgen, Taylor, Charles, and West, Cornel, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, ed. and intro. Mendieta, Eduardo and Vanantwerpen, Jonathan, afterword Calhoun, Craig (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 137 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1):…
The Wretched Refuse of Jewish American Literary History
These well-known lines, uttered silently by the Mother of Exiles in Lazarus's celebrated sonnet, mounted on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and excerpted on countless souvenir knickknacks now on sale at the museum shop, are a turning point in the history of Jewish American literature.I mean by this several things, historical and historiographical. Most basically, to call something a turning point means by definition …
The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies
Book Review| April 01 2012 The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies Hartman, Geoffrey, The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 236 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 372. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Searc…
An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age
Book Review| August 01 2011 An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age Habermas, Jürgen, Reder, Michael, Schmidt, Josef, Briskorn, Norbert, and Ricken, Friedo, An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age, trans. Cronin, Ciaran (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), 87 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 538. …
Critical Narcissism and the Coming-of-Age of Jewish American Literary Studies
Three and a half centuries since the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, and more than two and a half centuries since the first Jewish-authored book was published in Boston, the academic study of Jewish American literature may very well be coming of age. There have been some very promising signs in recent years. W.W. Norton, the leading publisher of classroom anthologies, has given the field its imprimatur with Jewish American Literature: A Nort…
Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination
Book Review| April 01 2004 Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 362. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-362-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Common Knowl…
Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
Book Review| January 01 2004 Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 161. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction…
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and accultur…
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature
Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exil…
Book Review| March 01 2003 Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled By Siobhan Senier. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xvi, 256 pp.$29.95.By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Sea…
Religion and Cultural Studies
Book Review| April 01 2003 Religion and Cultural Studies Susan L. Mizruchi, ed., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 269 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 351. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-2-351 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Religion and Cultural…
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, & the Culture of Performance
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
In this study of the rhetoric of American writings on language, Michael Kramer argues that the prevalent critical distinction between imaginative and nonimaginative writing is of limited theoretical use. Breaking down the artificial, disciplinary barriers between two areas of scholarly inquiry--the literature of the American Renaissance and the study of in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War--Kramer finds in various walks o…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Book Review| January 01 2013 The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere Butler, Judith, Habermas, Jürgen, Taylor, Charles, and West, Cornel, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, ed. and intro. Mendieta, Eduardo and Vanantwerpen, Jonathan, afterword Calhoun, Craig (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 137 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1):…
Acts of Assimilation: The Invention of Jewish American Literary History
Taking as its point of departure Irving Howe's much maligned prediction of the inevitable demise of Jewish American literature after his own celebrated generation, this essay asks us to not to disprove Howe by looking forward to the current crop of talented writers, as has been the tendency in Jewish American literary criticism, but rather to look back to establish the literary tradition that Howe constructed and eulogized. The essay identifies t…
The Wretched Refuse of Jewish American Literary History
These well-known lines, uttered silently by the Mother of Exiles in Lazarus's celebrated sonnet, mounted on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and excerpted on countless souvenir knickknacks now on sale at the museum shop, are a turning point in the history of Jewish American literature.I mean by this several things, historical and historiographical. Most basically, to call something a turning point means by definition …
The Political Theory of the Federalist
Horace Bushnell's Philosophy of Language Considered as a Mode of Cultural Criticism
EVER SINCE CHARLES FEIDELSON CLASSIFIED HORACE BUSHNELL AS A VERSION of Emerson, a growing number of scholars have sought to revaluate Bushnell's place in American intellectual history.' Given the linguistic turn of much recent scholarship, it is not surprising that a major focus of this rediscovery has been the controversial minister's views on language. The one work that continues to attract sustained critical interest is God in Christ (1849), …
Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England
Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions
The Autobiographies of Noah Webster: From the Letters and Essays, Memoir and Diary
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
Imagining Language in America From the Revolution to the Civil War
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
In this study of the rhetoric of American writings on language, Michael Kramer argues that the prevalent critical distinction between imaginative and nonimaginative writing is of limited theoretical use. Breaking down the artificial, disciplinary barriers between two areas of scholarly inquiry--the literature of the American Renaissance and the study of in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War--Kramer finds in various walks o…
Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, & the Culture of Performance
Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and accultur…
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature
Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exil…
Book Review| March 01 2003 Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled By Siobhan Senier. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xvi, 256 pp.$29.95.By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Sea…
Religion and Cultural Studies
Book Review| April 01 2003 Religion and Cultural Studies Susan L. Mizruchi, ed., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 269 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 351. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-2-351 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Religion and Cultural…
Critical Narcissism and the Coming-of-Age of Jewish American Literary Studies
Three and a half centuries since the first Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, and more than two and a half centuries since the first Jewish-authored book was published in Boston, the academic study of Jewish American literature may very well be coming of age. There have been some very promising signs in recent years. W.W. Norton, the leading publisher of classroom anthologies, has given the field its imprimatur with Jewish American Literature: A Nort…
Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination
Book Review| April 01 2004 Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 362. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-362-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Common Knowl…
Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
Book Review| January 01 2004 Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 161. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael P. Kramer; Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction…
An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age
Book Review| August 01 2011 An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age Habermas, Jürgen, Reder, Michael, Schmidt, Josef, Briskorn, Norbert, and Ricken, Friedo, An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age, trans. Cronin, Ciaran (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), 87 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 538. …
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Book Review| January 01 2013 The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere Butler, Judith, Habermas, Jürgen, Taylor, Charles, and West, Cornel, The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, ed. and intro. Mendieta, Eduardo and Vanantwerpen, Jonathan, afterword Calhoun, Craig (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 137 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1):…
The Wretched Refuse of Jewish American Literary History
These well-known lines, uttered silently by the Mother of Exiles in Lazarus's celebrated sonnet, mounted on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and excerpted on countless souvenir knickknacks now on sale at the museum shop, are a turning point in the history of Jewish American literature.I mean by this several things, historical and historiographical. Most basically, to call something a turning point means by definition …
The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies
Book Review| April 01 2012 The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies Hartman, Geoffrey, The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 236 pp. Michael P. Kramer Michael P. Kramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 372. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Searc…
Acts of Assimilation: The Invention of Jewish American Literary History
Taking as its point of departure Irving Howe's much maligned prediction of the inevitable demise of Jewish American literature after his own celebrated generation, this essay asks us to not to disprove Howe by looking forward to the current crop of talented writers, as has been the tendency in Jewish American literary criticism, but rather to look back to establish the literary tradition that Howe constructed and eulogized. The essay identifies t…
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
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