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The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature:
The National Yiddish Book Center has
identified the “100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature” – written in
Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German, Spanish, English and other languages. Our
plans are to integrate them into the mainstream of contemporary Jewish
education.
The seven distinguished judges compiling the list are: Glenda Abramson
of Oxford University; Robert Alter of the University of California at
Berkeley; Hillel Halkin of Zichron Ya-akov, Israel; Gershon Shaked of Hebrew
University in Jerusalem; Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times; Ilan
Stavans of Amherst College; and Ruth Wisse of Harvard University. The project
coordinator is Dr. Jeremy Dauber, a former Yiddish Book Center intern, a
recent Rhodes Scholar, and assistant professor of Yiddish at Columbia
University.
Deliberations began in the spring of
2000 and concluded in December 2001. The Center’s president, Aaron Lansky,
describes the results as “a fascinating, challenging, sometimes surprising
list with books ranging from Mendele to Maus.”
Professor Ruth Wisse, author of The Modern Jewish Canon, says that
the final list reflects “a mighty literature.”
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