Comparative Jewish Literatures
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 891
Special Issue Editor
Interests: holocaust literatures; diasporic narratives; testimonio in Latin American Jewish narratives; Haskalah Jewish experience; secular Jewish studies; modern Jewish thought; comparative Jewish literatures from antiquity to modernity
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Dear Colleagues,
Within Comparative Literature, the new subfield of Comparative Jewish Literatures offers scholars another way of thinking about the multivalent nature of Jewish writing. For this Special Issue, the editors seek contributions that examine different theoretical approaches to Jewish writers, to texts that explore representations of the Jewish lived experience, to the diachronic development of Jewish secular traditions in multiple languages as well as national traditions, and to the transformation of sacred Judaic content into profane objects of knowledge pertinent to non-Judaic cultural expressions. Hence, new ways of analyzing Jewish writing against the grain of scholarship rooted exclusively in the Jewish lived experience are particularly welcome.
Papers might include the following:
- Comparative analyses of Jewish writers in different national traditions;
- Jewish writing beyond English and American traditions;
- The Hebrew Bible as literature;
- Jewish writers and/or Jewish writing from the Global South;
- Jewish writing in a post-colonial context;
- Theoretical approaches to Jewish texts;
- The tradition of the Jewish literary critic.
Prof. Dr. Kitty Millet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- comparative literature
- Jewish studies
- Jewish writer
- sacred text
- profane
- Talmud
- Hebrew bible
- kabbalah
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- national traditions
- post-colonial
- Global South
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