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  1. "Banished from their father's table"
    loss of faith and Hebrew autobiography
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0253338573
    Series: Jewish literature and culture
    Subjects: Autobiographical fiction, Hebrew
    Other subjects: Feuerberg, Mordecai Zeʼev (1874-1899); Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph (1865-1921); Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim (1881-1921)
    Scope: IX, 223 S., 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Translating Israel
    contemporary Hebrew literature and its reception in America
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, NY

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0815629001; 0815628994
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
    Subjects: Rezeption; Neuhebräisch; Literatur
    Scope: VII, 272 S.
  3. Ḥûrban
    responses to catastrophe in Hebrew literature
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, New York

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0815604246
    RVK Categories: BD 1240
    Scope: XIV, 283 S.
  4. "Banished from their father's table"
    loss of faith and Hebrew autobiography
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    88.443.56
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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothek Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW)
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
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    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0253338573
    RVK Categories: BD 8470
    Series: Jewish literature and culture
    Subjects: Autobiografie
    Other subjects: Feierberg, Seew M. (1874-1899); Brenner, Yôsēf Ḥayyîm (1881-1921); Bin-Gorion, Micha Josef (1865-1921)
    Scope: IX, 223 S.
  5. The boom in contemporary Israeli fiction
    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of New England, Hanover

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    86.370.36
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    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 087451830X
    Edition: 1. [print.]
    Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 24
    Subjects: Neuhebräisch; Prosa
    Scope: 192 S.
  6. Ḥûrban
    responses to catastrophe in Hebrew literature
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    11.971.91
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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothek Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW)
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    80/Lc 20 06
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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    116.719
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0231056346
    RVK Categories: BD 1240
    Scope: XIV, 283 S.
  7. Popular culture and the shaping of Holocaust memory in America
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle

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    Bibliothek des Fritz Bauer Instituts zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust
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    R 03 45
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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    87.206.83
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    940.5318 MIN
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 029598161X; 0295981202
    RVK Categories: AP 46800 ; AP 52600 ; HU 1691 ; NQ 2350 ; NQ 2360 ; NQ 6020 ; NQ 8330
    Series: The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish studies
    Subjects: Judenvernichtung; Rezeption; Film; Judenvernichtung <Motiv>; Öffentliche Meinung; Gedenken
    Scope: XIV, 208 Seiten, Illustrationen
  8. A book that was lost and other stories
    Author: ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Schocken Books, New York, NY

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    12.712.64
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    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0805241205
    Edition: 1.ed.
    Scope: VI, 436 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. [433] - 434
  9. Reading Hebrew literature
    critical discussions of six modern texts
    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of New England [u.a.], Hanover, NH [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    13.245.91
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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothek Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW)
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    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1584652004; 1584651954
    Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
    Subjects: Jüdische Literatur; Literatur; Juden
    Scope: X, 251, 38 S.
  10. Sanctuary in the wilderness
    a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Mintz's book is a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry, focussing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    Mintz's book is a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry, focussing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American vistas and Jewish fate and hope in mid-century. American Hebrew poets hoped to be read in both Palestine and America, but were disappointed on both scores. Several moved to Israel and connected with the vital literary scene there, but most stayed and persisted in the cause of American Hebraism.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804779104
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    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Neuhebräisch; Lyrik; Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew language
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 521 p.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  11. Building a city
    writings on Agnon's Buczacz in memory of Alan Mintz
    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Gefeierter); Jelen, Sheila E. (Herausgeber); Saks, Jeffrey (Herausgeber); Zierler, Wendy I. (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    91.472.39
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    Contributor: Mintz, Alan L. (Gefeierter); Jelen, Sheila E. (Herausgeber); Saks, Jeffrey (Herausgeber); Zierler, Wendy I. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780253065407
    Scope: 355 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Publikationsverzeichnis Alan Mintz: Seite 341-349
  12. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780295803692
    RVK Categories: AP 46800 ; AP 52600 ; HU 1691 ; NQ 2350 ; NQ 2360 ; NQ 6020 ; NQ 8330
    Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Subjects: Judenvernichtung; Rezeption; Film; Judenvernichtung <Motiv>; Öffentliche Meinung; Gedenken
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
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  13. Sanctuary in the wilderness
    a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    89.769.62
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780804762939; 0804762937
    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Neuhebräisch; Lyrik
    Scope: XVIII, 521 S., Ill., 23x15x4 cm
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  14. Ḥurban
    responses to catastrophe in Hebrew literature
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Pr., New York

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0231056346
    RVK Categories: BD 1240
    Subjects: Hebräisch; Judenverfolgung <Motiv>; Judenverfolgung; Juden; Neuhebräisch; Literatur; Geschichte; Judenvernichtung
    Scope: XIV, 283 S.
  15. Sanctuary in the wilderness
    a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California ; [ProQuest], [Ann Arbor, Michigan]

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    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804779104
    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Neuhebräisch; Lyrik
    Scope: 1 online resource (542 pages), Illustrations.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-[505]) and index

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  16. Banished from their father's table
    loss of faith and Hebrew autobiography
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington [u.a.]

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  17. George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1978; ©1978
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, s.l.

    In the nineteenth century, Mintz maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    In the nineteenth century, Mintz maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. In the idea of vocation she found a way to explore how far it is possible to be ambitious both for oneself and for a large cause, and a way to probe the contradictions between ambitious, self-defining work and the older institutions; of family, community, and religion. The book is solidly grounded in cultural and historical reality. Although Mintz concentrate on George Eliot and especially Middlemarch, he also examines the conceptions of self and work in Victorian biographies and autobiographies and the emergence in late-nineteenth-century fiction of the idea of the vocation of art.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674428560
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    Subjects: Vocation; Vocation in literature; Literature; Vocation dans la littérature; Englische Literatur
    Scope: Online-Ressource (XI, 193 S.)
  18. Ḥurban
    responses to catastrophe in hebrew literature
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0231056346
    Other identifier:
    006091
    RVK Categories: BD 1240
    Subjects: Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Hebrew literature; Piyutim; Holocaust survivors in literature
    Scope: xiv, 283 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
  19. Ḥurban
    responses to catastrophe in Hebrew literatur
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, NY

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0815604246
    Edition: 1. Syracuse Univ. Press ed.
    Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
    Subjects: Literatura hebraica (história e crítica); Literatur; Judenverfolgung; Geschichte; Judenvernichtung; Juden; Neuhebräisch; Hebräisch; Judenverfolgung <Motiv>
    Scope: XIV, 283 S.
  20. Translating Israel
    contemporary Hebrew literature and its reception in America
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, NY

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0815629001; 0815628994
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
    Subjects: Hebreeuws; Letterkunde; Receptie; Literatur; Rezeption; Israeli fiction; Israeli fiction; Zionism in literature; Rezeption; Literatur; Neuhebräisch
    Other subjects: Agnon, Shmuel Yosef <1888-1970>
    Scope: VII, 272 S.
  21. Sanctuary in the wilderness
    a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804762939; 9780804779104
    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew language; Lyrik; Neuhebräisch
    Scope: 1 online resource (542 pages), illustrations
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  22. The parable and its lesson
    a novella
    Author: ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef; Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Diamond, James S.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804788724; 9780804789257
    Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Subjects: Juden; Jews
    Scope: 1 online resource (177 pages)
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  23. Ancestral tales
    reading the Buczacz stories of S.Y. Agnon
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781503601161
    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Jews in literature
    Other subjects: Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1887-1970); ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef (1888-1970)
    Scope: ix, 425 Seiten, Illustration
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  24. George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: [1978]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674428560
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    Subjects: Fiction / Technique; Literatur; Englische Literatur; Vocation in literature; Vocation dans la littérature; Literature; Vocation; Berufung <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi,193p.)
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    In the nineteenth century, Mintz maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age

    Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. In the idea of vocation she found a way to explore how far it is possible to be ambitious both for oneself and for a large cause, and a way to probe the contradictions between ambitious, self-defining work and the older institutions; of family, community, and religion. The book is solidly grounded in cultural and historical reality. Although Mintz concentrate on George Eliot and especially Middlemarch, he also examines the conceptions of self and work in Victorian biographies and autobiographies and the emergence in late-nineteenth-century fiction of the idea of the vocation of art
  25. Sanctuary in the wilderness
    a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry
    Author: Mintz, Alan L.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780804762939
    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew poetry, Modern; Hebrew language; Neuhebräisch; Lyrik
    Scope: XVIII, 520 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index