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Reading Against the Grain: New Approaches to Jewish Literary Studies
Tue, December 17, 10:30am to 12:00pm EST (10:30am to 12:00pm EST), Virtual Zoom Room 15Session Submission Type: Panel Session
Abstract
These papers offer new readings of Jewish literary texts. They are joined together by their interest in reading against the grain, with through a rhetoric of suspicion or a rethinking of literary historical norms.
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Individual Presentations
Between fiction and reality: the chameleonic identity of Esther Brandeau (French) - Marcin Janczak, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
Is Reading Antisemitic? Approaching Jewish Writers through ‘Conspiratorial Reading’ - Edmund Chapman
Unveiling Mysteries, Upholding Tradition: Women Rabbis-Sleuths in Contemporary American Detective Fiction - Anat Koplowitz-Breier, Bar Ilan University, Israel
The Image of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn (1834-1914) and the Remaking of Chabad’s Literary Tradition - Eli Rubin, Chabad.org