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Article: Placeless Topographies: Jewish Perspectives on the Literature of Exile.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2005
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Placeless Topographies: Jewish Perspectives on the Literature of Exile. Ed. by BERNHARD GREINER. (Conditio Judaica, 43) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. 221 pp. 48 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-65143-1.
The product of a conference held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001, this volume approaches the subject of exile literature through the Jewish experience of exile. A total of thirteen contributions discuss German, Hebrew, and French exile literature with emphasis on the twentieth century. Jerusalem, as lost origin and desired destination in the exile's imagination, informs the theological-hermeneutic dimension of many of the articles. Further overlapping areas of ...