1. Prologue: Old Questions; Do They Deserve New Answers?

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xiii
5. From Continuity to Contiguity
6. 1. Prologue: Old Questions; Do They Deserve New Answers? 1
7. 2. The “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse and the Illusion of Israeli Cultural Normalcy 20
8. 3. Modern Jewish Literary Thinking: The Enlightenment and the Advent of Nationalism 57
9. 4. The Jewish Literary Renaissance at the Turn of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries 90
10. 5. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Hebrew 134
11. 6. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times 171
12. 7. Vertical and Horizontal Continuities and Discontinuities 204
13. 8. Dov Sadan’s Concept of Sifrut Yisra’el, and Why the “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse Became Irrelevant 246
14. 9. Jewish Diglossias—Differential and Integral 278
15. 10. Contiguity: Franz Kafka’s Standing Within the Modern Jewish Literary Complex 303
16. 11. Contiguity: How Kafka and Sholem Aleichem Are Contiguous 351
17. 12. Conclusion: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking 403
18. Abramovitsh and His Mendele Between Hebrew and Yiddish
19. Breathing Through Both Nostrils? Shalom Ya’akov Abramovitsh Between Hebrew and Yiddish 421
20. Notes 499
21. Index 531