Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

Vered Lev Kenaan is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. Her work focuses on the connections between classical studies, comparative literature, reception studies, and psychoanalysis. Among her numerous publications, she is the author of The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text (OUP, 2019), and Pandora's Senses: The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text (Wisconsin University Press 2008).Patricia A. Rosenmeyer is Paddison Distinguished Professor of Classics and Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She taught previously at Michigan, Yale, and Wisconsin. Her books include The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition (Cambridge, 1992), Ancient Epistolary Fictions (Cambridge, 2001), Ancient Greek Literary Letters (Routledge, 2006), Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature ( Brill, 2013;), and The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus (OUP, 2018).

• Vered Lev Kenaan and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer: Classical Transformations Part I. Classical Scholarship in Times of Crisis 1: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer: After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a Second World War Internment Camp 2: Vered Lev Kenaan: Shlomo Dykman's Aeneid: A Journey from Holocaust to Revival 3: Simon Goldhill: Resisting Reception: The Treachery of the Self Part II. Philosophical Wanderings 4: James I. Porter: The Genesis of Rachel Bespaloff 's De l'Iliade 5: Galili Shahar: The Odyssey, Otherwise 6: Miriam Leonard: Cholent and the 'False Divinity' of Greece: Hannah Arendt's Hellenism Part III. Translation and Survival 7: Donna Shalev: Yiddish Translations of Classical Texts: Plato in the Mamalushn and the Metropolis 8: Richard H. Armstrong: Ay de mi Alhama: Impossible Chronologies of Love, Loss, and Learning in Freud and Moshe Ha-Elion 9: Vered Lev Kenaan and Ahlam Nubani: Translation in Exile: Ma.hm=ud al-Gh=ul's Aeneid Part IV. Classics and the Secularization of Modern Hebrew 10: Yotam Cohen: The Classical Turn in Hebrew Literature in the Early Twentieth Century: The Role of the Literary Editor 11: Aminadav Dykman: The Reception of Classical Literature in Hebrew: A Very Brief Survey 12: Tsafi Sebba-Elran: Knowledge, Power, and Control in Modern Jewish Folktales of Alexander the Great Part V. Mediterranean Classics: Receptions by Israeli and Palestinian Poets 13: Giacomo Loi: From Enemy to Ruins: Roman Empire and Decadence in the Poetry of Dan Pagis and Haim Gouri 14: Kawthar Aslah and Haim Dorchin: Homeric Memory in Israeli and Palestinian Poetry: Meir Wieseltier and Mahmoud Darwish 15: Daniel Behar: 'Because of What Is Frozen': Back to the Classics in the Poetry of Israel Pincas and Walid Khazendar

This handsomely produced book is indeed a pleasure to hold and to read. Readers will find striking new facts and observations-I personally gained most from the notes on Arabic reception, with which I was less familiar. One should be impressed by the success of Lev Kenaan and Rosenmeyer, who assembled this lively, richly argued collection.