Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

39. Narrative Strategies in Modern Jewish Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 306B, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the American Association of Professors of Yiddish

Presiding: Alan Astro, Trinity Univ.

1. “A New Rhetorical Justice (Another Meylits-Yoysher): Eliezer Steinbarg,” Nikki Halpern, Paideia, European Inst. for Jewish Studies in Sweden

2. “The Fantasy of the Jewish Hero in Mordecai Richler’s Novels,” Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

3. “David Grossman’s Tolerant Readers,” Alan Mintz, Jewish Theological Seminary

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