Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law
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Breaking the Mosaic Code: Jewish Literature vs. the Law
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| 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.
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Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal
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Vol. 27
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no. 3
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87-106
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September 1994
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| Language |
en
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| 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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