Author: PATTERSON, DAVID.
Title: A Phoenix in Fetters. Studies in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hebrew Fiction.
Description: Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield,1988. 1st ed. "In A Phoenix in Fetters, David Patterson describes the extraordinary paradox affecting Hebrew literature in the 19th century.On the one hand it aspired to serve as a conduit for the Jews of Eastern Europe from the medieval to the modern world. On the other hand, it embraced a theory of literature that artificially restricted its development." Pp.12/210. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

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