Jewish literature

[Anonymous No.4815516]

Hi /lit/, I'm new here. I'm going to be writing my Masters thesis in the next year and one of my focus areas happens to be Jewish literature. The scope of Jewish literature is rather varied in comparison to other literary traditions (English literature, Slavic, German, Arabic, etc.) It is multidimensional having both elements of religion influence but also pulling Jewish literature as a whole tends to overlap with several different cultures that are not necessarily defined by Judaism as a whole. Additionally, modern Jewish literature tends to encompasses a variety of intellectual schools, movements, philosophies, etc. that may at times seem contradictory to the scope of faith (in my case, I tend to focus on existentialism, absurdism, and nihilism)


TL;DR
What do you guys want to know about Jewish lit or what might interest you on the topic?

[EvolaKid !vKJYJAzBlI No.4815518]

>>4815516
Protocols Learned Elders of Zion

[Anonymous No.4815520]

There are multiple books at the local 2nd hand store about guilt and its virtues

>The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt
>What's Wrong with Guilt? by Rabbi Ezra Shekelbaum

Truly a repulsive people.

[Anonymous No.4815525]

My aunt is a professor who teaches this subject. I haven't talked to her in a while but I remember her mentioning Exodus by Leon Uris. I believe Ivanhoe by Walter Scott also touches upon Jewish identity in the medieval period. The books of the bible also goes without saying.

[Anonymous No.4815527]

>mfw /lit/ c.2014 = /pol/ c.2013

Levinas or Buber, OP?

[Anonymous No.4815535]

>>4815516
The Natural isn't really a "jewish" book but it has a jewish author and references king david and all that.

[Anonymous No.4815539]

>>4815516

I have a couple of questions for you, OP.

What’s the original metric structure of the Book of Job? Are there a lot of sonorous effects in the original text?

I have read that the monologue of Yahweh in the end of the book (one of the most powerful and sublime things I have ever read) is so outstanding in the original that many historians and scholars point it out that religious people may use it as an evidence of the existence of the divinity. So, how does it feel to read the speeches of God in the end of the Book of Job in the original?

[Anonymous No.4815545]

>>4815518
oh come on. Even Evola conceded that the Protocols were most likely fabricated

[Anonymous No.4815549]

>>4815545
So why are they coming true as we live and breathe?

[Anonymous No.4815556]

>>4815516

can you define your area of interest in Jewish Literature ?

[/lit/ Jewfag No.4815591]

>>4815518
>lulz

>>4815520
Have you tried The Guide to Kosher Sex or the Shiksa's Guide to Jewish Dating? (seriously, these are books)

>>4815525
I actually might take a class on Jewish identity during the medieval period in the Fall. However, at this point in time, the Jewish world was more defined by the culture of Sephardim (Spanish Jews) who still had definitive social and economic connections with the Holy Land until the Crusades under Richard the I.

>>4815527
More inclined to Buber, because his short stories were cash, but Levinas is more related to my subject area. Vilna is still considered the culture capital for Yiddish literature in Europe, giving birth to the Jewish workers movement as well as a push for universal acceptance of secular Judaism.

>>4815539
I'm not 100% familiar with Biblical sources beyond that of symbolic references in modern literature, I'm afraid, but I will check this out. I'm sure I can also find a link of someone chanting these verses in the original Hebrew.

[Anonymous No.4815592]

Rachel Korn and Jacob Glatstein

[Anonymous No.4815595]

>>4815591
>I'm not 100% familiar with Biblical sources beyond that of symbolic references in modern literature, I'm afraid, but I will check this out. I'm sure I can also find a link of someone chanting these verses in the original Hebrew

Thank you very much :)

[/lit/ Jewfag No.4815604]

>>4815592
>fuccck yes Glatsein
His biography is amazing

[Anonymous No.4815631]

>>4815516
>Jewish lit thesis

Is this a troll thread? Because it's truly disgusting and needs to be reported.

[Anonymous No.4815635]

I'm currently reading this one.

[Anonymous No.4815650]

use this as a reference to really understand judaism and its authors

[Anonymous No.4815658]

Love me some Chiam Potok. Grew up on those books.

[/lit/ Jewfag No.4815660]

>>4815595
Okay, I pulled up a lecture from Yale (The Book of Job isn't part of the Torah, but is part of the Ketuvim (Writings, includes Song of Songs, Psalms and what not)
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddu4v_5kXXE

This is the Hebrew
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtSn3ShOIw

[Anonymous No.4815670]

>>4815660

Thank you very much for this. I will see it when I get home. Right now I am at the office, pretending to work ;)

[Anonymous No.4815676]

The Holocaust Industry - Norman Finkelstein

get enlightened

[Anonymous No.4815727]

>>4815539
Interesting. Muslims speak this way about the Quran all the time I don't think I've ever heard this exact tone used in relation to Judaism or Christianity before.

[Anonymous No.4815734]

Spinoza's Ethics