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LLC Jewish American

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  • Profile picture of Kathryn Ann Hellerstein

    Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program:

    “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

    Steven J. Zipperstein
    March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
    Registration Required:  Click here to register

    More information on the Jewish Studies Program website

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    Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth” March 15: Steven Zipperstein (UPenn Silvers Visiting Scholar) in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American via email on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    *UPCOMING EVENT*

    *”On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”*

    Steve J. Zipperstein

    March 15, 2021
    7:00 PM EST

    Registration Required:
    Click here to register
    <https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xSTYs3noTD6983U0f3FJgw&gt;

    More information on the Jewish Studies Program…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Kathryn Ann Hellerstein

    Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

    Steven J. Zipperstein
    March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
    Registration Required:  Click here to register

    More information on the Jewish Studies Program website.

  • Profile picture of Kathryn Ann Hellerstein

    Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    UPCOMING EVENT

    “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

    Steve J. Zipperstein
    March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
    Registration Required:  Click here to register

    More information on the Jewish Studies Program website.



    “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

    Steve J. Zipperstein
    March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
    Registration Required:  Click here to re…

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  • Profile picture of Sharon B. Oster

    Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews   in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews

    We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]

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    Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas

    We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jodi Eichler-Levine

    Jodi Eichler-Levine deposited Jews and the Broadway Musical in the group Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    The history of American musical theater is deeply interwoven with the history of American Jews. This course examines how Jews have taken part in musical theater on multiple levels-as composers, lyricists, producers, and performers, among other roles. It also examines how Jews are depicted in Broadway musicals, with particular attention to gender…[Read more]

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    Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.’s eXistence. from Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years ago

  • Profile picture of Helene Meyers

    Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago

    A B ST R A C T
    Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
    2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
    politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
    the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Laurence D. Roth

    Laurence D. Roth started the topic CFP: American Jews and Music: Assembling New Canons and Contexts in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago

    Special Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature

    Guest editors: Jonathan Freedman and Laurence Roth

    If the first major waves of popular interest in, philanthropic funding of, and scholarship on contemporary Jewish music and songwriters in the U.S. have finally receded, they’ve left a treasure in their wake. From Orthodox popular music and…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Veronica Schanoes

    Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you so much!  I’m certain they will be.

    –Veronica

  • Profile picture of Sarah P. Casteel

    Sarah P. Casteel replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months ago

    Dear Veronica,

    Thanks very much for your interest in our cfp. Below are the references you requested–I hope they are helpful!

    All the best,

    Sarah

     

    Boyarin, Jonathan. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

    Cheyette, Bryan. Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the N…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Veronica Schanoes

    Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago

    I’m sorry to show my ignorance, but these topics sound really important to a project I’m working on, and I don’t know the sources you are citing.  I’d love to look them up.  Would you be able to give me the citations you reference in the parentheses?  Thank you so much.  Again, I apologize if I should already know this.

    –Veronica Schanoes

  • Profile picture of Sarah P. Casteel

    Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago

    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
    Similarities between Jewish and colonial subjects i…[Read more]

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    Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka as "the Modern Man" = = "K." in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months ago

    From Walter Sokel’s famous Kafka Study – Fr. K. Tragik & Ironie:

    “If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the ho…[Read more]

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    Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.’s eXistence. from Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months ago

  • Profile picture of Daniela Goldfine

    Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.

    Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Saul Noam Zaritt

    Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago

    In geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.

    In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.

    In geveb began…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Roberta Rosenberg

    Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanJewish American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years ago

     

    MLA Call For Proposals:

    Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature

    Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]

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    Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group Group logo of LLC Jewish AmericanLLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 7 years ago

    Art Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]

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