A Journey Through Language and Culture
The first book to set forth the criteria for canonising Jewish literature, 'The Modern Jewish Canon' takes you on an exhilarating chronological journey across the boundaries of language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish experience through the greatest Jewish novels of modern times.
Ruth Wisse shows how Jews have imagined and re-imagined themselves from generation to generation, and from place to place. Providing an historical and cultural context for understanding such writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arthur Koestler, Elie Wiesel, and Leon Uris, this authoritative, fascinating work will become an enduring classic.
