Mendele Moykher Sforim

New Perspectives

Edited by Israel Bartal Edited by Avner Holtzman Edited by Jonatan Meir

Extent: 278 pages

Publisher: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Language: Hebrew

Hardback (Published)

(December 2025)

ISBN: 9789652082411

5.91 x 9.45 inches

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Synopsis
Contents
Contributing Authors

This volume presents articles delivered at the symposium commemorating the centenary of the death of Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh, known as Mendele Moykher Sforim, focusing on various aspects of his work and world. The publication also includes new articles written specifically for this edition.

Israel Bartal, “Mendele in History, Mendele and History”
Dan Miron, “A Line within a Circle: On the Cyclic Pattern in S. Y. Abramovitsh’s Literary Space and Plots”
Avner Holtzman, “S. Y. Abramovitsh and the Modern Jewish Revolution”
Haim Be’er, “Mendele Moykher Sforim before the Bookcase”
Aminadav Dykman Z"L, “Mendele’s Nusach between East, West, South and North: Earlier and Later Responses”
Chava Turniansky, “Bible, Piyyut and Zemirot in S. Y. Abramovitsh’s Yiddish Translations”
Jonatan Meir, “The Rise and Fall of the Mendele Project”
Dror Burstein, “The Religious Ecology of The History of Nature”
Shai Abadi, “The Evolution of Environmental Thought in the Work of S. Y. Abramovitsh”
Yarin Raban, “The Mendele Shtetl in the Discourse of Y. H. Brenner and A. D. Gordon”
David Assaf, “To Kopyl in the Footsteps of Mendele Moykher Sforim”

Edited by Israel Bartal
Edited by Avner Holtzman
Edited by Jonatan Meir

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