Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law

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Author/collaborator
Title
Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law
Abstract
The author points out that the highly legalistic nature of Judaism in the Five Books of Moses and the Talmud, and the trial of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice impose restrictions on modern Jewish writers. He explains how Montreal novelists A. M. Klein and Mordecai Richler, as well as Franz Kafka, S. Y. Agnon, Walter Benjamin and Saul Bellow, employed a variety of imaginative strategies to contend with the burden of these strictures.
Publication
Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal
Volume
Vol. 27
Issue
no. 3
Pages
87-106
Date
September 1994
Language
en
Citation
Greenstein, Michael. “Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Vol. 27, no. 3 (September 1994): 87–106.
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