Other and Brother
Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199760008
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 239x155x27 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 black & white halftones 0
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Short description:
In a groundbreaking exploration of modern Jewish literature, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus, the ultimate ''Other'' in medieval Jewish literature. Stahl argues that twentieth-century Jewish writers relocated Jesus from his traditional status as the Christian Other to a position as a fellow Jew, a ''brother,'' and even as a means of reconstructing themselves.
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In a groundbreaking exploration of modern Jewish literature, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus, the ultimate ''Other'' in medieval Jewish literature. Stahl argues that twentieth-century Jewish writers relocated Jesus from his traditional status as the Christian Other to a position as a fellow Jew, a ''brother,'' and even as a means of reconstructing themselves.
Other and Brother analyzes the work of a wide array of modern Jewish writers, beginning in the early twentieth century and ending with contemporary Israeli literature. Stahl takes the reader through dramatic changes in Jewish life beginning with the Haskalah (or Jewish Enlightenment) and Emancipation, and subsequently Zionism and the Holocaust. The Holocaust and the formation of the state of Israel caused a major transformation in the Jewish attitude toward Jesus. The emergence of quasi-messianic Zionist ideas of returning to the land of Israel, where the actual Jesus was born, helped other features of the image of Jesus to become a source of attraction and identification for Hebrew poets and Hebrew and Yiddish prose writers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Stahl's nuanced and insightful historiography of modern Hebrew and Jewish literature will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the role of Jesus in Jewish culture.
[this book] deserves serious study by anyone interested in Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Jew, a New Jesus: Jesus and the Jewish National Culture in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 2: ''Cut from all of his Brothers, from his Blood'' - The Figure of Jesus in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg
Chapter 3: ''The Temptation of the Cross'' - The Figure of Jesus in Israeli Literature
Chapter 4: The Father and the Son of God - Jesus in the Works of Yoel Hoffmann
Chapter 5: "I left Yeshu" - Jesus in the Poetry of Avot Yeshurun
Epilogue: The Ironic Gaze at Brother Jesus
Notes
Index
