Amir Eshel, Todd Presner (Editors)
Between Spontaneity and Reflection: Reconsidering Jewish Modernism (Modernism/Modernity)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Modernism/Modernity, Volume Thirteen, Number Four, November 2006. Pages 608-788.
Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 10.25", is new.
This issue contains an introduction by the editors and the following articles:
"Modernism without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument" by Scott Spector; "Jews as Siberian Natives: Primitivism and S. An-sky's "Dybbuk"" by Gabriella Safran; "Agnon's Modernity: Death and Modernism in S. Y. Agnon's "A Guest for the Night"" by Uri Cohen; "Visions of Jewish Modernism" by Barbara Mann; "Muscle Jews and Airplanes: Modernist Mythologies, the Great War, and the Politics of Regeneration" by Todd Presner; "Belated Jewish Modernism in France: Georges Perec's Cult of Memory" by Derek Schilling.