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The Anthology in Jewish Literature David Stern, Editor OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Anthology in Jewish Literature This page intentionally left blank The Anthology in Jewish Literature Edited by David Stern 1 2004 1 Oxford NewYork Auckland Bangkok BuenosAires CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜oPaulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright(cid:1) 2004 by OxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData TheanthologyinJewishliterature/editedbyDavidStern. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. Contents:AncientIsraelandclassicalJudaism,AnthologyintheTorahandthequestionofDeuteronomy/Jeffrey Tigay—Wisdomandtheanthologicaltemper/JamesKugel—Order,sequence,andselection:theMishnah’s anthologicalchoices/YaakovElman—AnthologicaldimensionsoftheBabylonianTalmud/EliezerSegal— Anthologyandpolysemyinclassicalmidrash/DavidStern—TheMiddleAges.Theprayerbook(siddur)asan anthologyofJudaism/JosephTabory—YalqutShim(cid:1)oniandthemedievalmidrashicanthology/JacobElbaum— TheHebrewnarrativeintheMiddleAges/EliYassif—Midrashrabbahandthemedievalcollectormentality/ MarcBregman—Themodernperiod.Homoanthologicus:MichaJosephBerdyczewskiandtheanthologicalgenre/ ZiporaKagan—Seferha(cid:2)aggadah:creatingaclassicanthology/MarkKiel—Theingatheringoftraditions:Zionism’s anthologyproject/IsraelBartal—GenderandtheanthologicaltraditioninmodernYiddishpoetry/Kathryn Hellerstein—Ourpoetryislikeanorangegrove:anthologiesofHebrewpoetryinEretz-Yisrael/HannanHever— Anthologizingthevernacular:collectionsofYiddishliteratureinEnglishtranslation/JeffreyShandler— TextualizingthetalesofthePeopleoftheBook:folknarrativeanthologiesandnationalidentityinmodernIsrael/ GalitHasan-Rokem—TheHolocaustaccordingtoitsanthologists/DavidRoskies. ISBN0-19-513751-5 1. Jewishliterature—Historyandcriticism. 2. Anthologies. 3. Rabbinical literature—Historyandcriticism. 4. Judaism—Literarycollections—History. 5. Jews—Literarycollections—History. I. Stern,David,1949– PN842.A582004 808.8'98924—dc22. 2003061137 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Acknowledgments Thisbookbeganasaworkshopentitled,“TheAnthologicalOntologyinHebrew Literature,” held in May 1995underthe auspicesofthePorterInstituteofTel Aviv University and with the special encouragement of its director at the time, Ziva ben Porat. Some of the papers from that workshop along with numerous othersappearedasthreespecialissuesofthejournalProoftexts:AJournalofJewish Literary History (17:1 [January 1997], 17:2 [May 1997], and 19:1 [January 1999]). I especially want to thank Alan Mintz and David Roskies, the editors of Prooftexts, for lending the journal’s support and resources to the topic. A special acknowl- edgment of gratitude goes to Cynthia Read, our editor at Oxford, for both her support and her patience; to Robert Milks and Theo Calderara for overseeing a complicated process of publication; and to Patricia Wright for her extremely dis- cerning eye for detail. Finally, I owe a debt of gratitude that even an anthology of thanks could not convey to Kathryn Hellerstein, my beloved, and to our chil- dren, Rebecca and Jonah, for their constant inspiration and for allowing me oc- casionally to use the computer. This page intentionally left blank Contents Contributors ix 1. The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction 3 David Stern I. ANCIENT ISRAEL AND CLASSICAL JUDAISM 2. Anthology in the Torah and the Question of Deuteronomy 15 Jeffrey H. Tigay 3. Wisdom and the Anthological Temper 32 James Kugel 4. Order, Sequence, and Selection: The Mishnah’s Anthological Choices 53 Yaakov Elman 5. Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud 81 Eliezer Segal 6. Anthology and Polysemy in Classical Midrash 108 David Stern II. THE MIDDLE AGES 7. The Prayerbook (Siddur) as an Anthology of Judaism 143 JosephTabory 8. Yalqut Shim(cid:1)oni and the Medieval Midrashic Anthology 159 Jacob Elbaum 9. The Hebrew Narrative Anthology in the Middle Ages 176 Eli Yassif 10. Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector Mentality 196 Marc Bregman vii viii Contents III. THE MODERN PERIOD 11. Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre 211 Zipora Kagan 12. Sefer Ha(cid:2)aggadah: Creating a Classic Anthology 226 Mark W. Kiel 13. The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism’s Anthology Projects 244 Israel Bartal 14. Gender and the Anthological Tradition in Modern Yiddish Poetry 259 KathrynHellerstein 15. “Our Poetry Is Like an Orange Grove”: Anthologies of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael 281 Hannan Hever 16. Anthologizing the Vernacular: Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation 304 Jeffrey Shandler 17. Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel 324 Galit Hasan-Rokem 18. The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists 335 David G. Roskies Contributors Israel Bartal is Avraham Harman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew Uni- versityof Jerusalem. MarcBregmanisProfessorofRabbinicLiterature,HebrewUnionCollege,JewishInstitute of Religion, Jerusalem,Israel. Jacob Elbaum is Professorof Hebrew Literatureat the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem. Yaakov Elman is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies in the Bernard Revel Graduate School, YeshivaUniversity. James Kugel is MeislerProfessorof Bible at BarIlan University. GalitHasan-RokemisMaxandMargaretheGrunwaldProfessorofFolkloreattheHebrew Universityof Jerusalem. Kathryn Hellerstein is Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish Language and Literature and Jewish Studies at the Universityof Pennslyvania. Hannan Hever is Professorof Hebrew Literatureat the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem. Zipora Kagan is Professorof Hebrew LiteratureEmeritusat Haifa University. Mark W. Kiel is Rabbi at CongregationBnai Israelin Emerson,New Jersey. DavidG.RoskiesisSolandEvelynHenkindProfessorofYiddishLiteratureatTheJewish Theological Seminary. Eliezer Segal is Professorof Religious Studies at the Universityof Calgary,Canada. Jeffrey Shandler is an assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. ix
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