The Quest for Redemption
Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works
$110.58
- Paperback
350 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2018
Summary
The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth’s Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth’s major works of fiction for the first time in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption among the Jewish intellectuals of Central Europe. In it, Piloiu argues that Roth’s challenging, often contradictory and ambivalent literary output is the result of an attempt to recast moral, political, and historical realities of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781557538307 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1557538301 |
| Author: | Rares Piloiu |
| Publisher: | Purdue University Press |
| Imprint: | Purdue University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 565g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 154mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Comparative Cultural Studies |
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Critics Review
“The depth of the author’s knowledge about Jewish religious thought, German-language intellectual history, and interwar Central European culture is breathtaking, and he manages to weave these different strands of modern European history into one convincing and highly readable book.”
About The Author
Rares Piloiu
Rares Piloiu holds a BA in philology from the University of Bucharest, an MA in gender studies from the Central European University in Budapest, and a PhD in comparative literature from SUNY Buffalo. He has completed research at the Technical University Darmstadt and the University of Constance in Germany. Piloiu has taught at SUNY Buffalo and Otterbein University. Currently, he works as an information literacy coordinator at Otterbein University’s Courtright Memorial Library.
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