%% Books
@book{fds339982,
Author = {Ginsburg, S and Land, M and Boyarin, J},
Title = {Jews and the ends of theory},
Pages = {1-336},
Year = {2018},
Month = {December},
ISBN = {9780823282005},
Abstract = {Theory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often
been coded as "Jewish." This collection of essays seeks to
move past explanations for this understanding that rely on
the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the
rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or
stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the "Jewish Science") in
order to show how certain problematics of modern Jewishness
enrich theory. In the range of violence and agency that
attend the appellation "Jew," depending on how, where, and
by whom it's uttered, we can see that Jewishness is a
rhetorical as much as a sociological fact, and that its
rhetorical and sociological aspects, while linked, are not
identical. Attention to this disjuncture helps to elucidate
the questions of power, subjectivity, identity, figuration,
language, and relation that modern theory has grappled with.
These questions in turn implicate geopolitical issues such
as the relation of a people to a state and the violence done
in the name of simplistic identitarian ideologies.
Clarifying a situation where "the Jew" is not readily or
unproblematically legible, the editors propose what they
call "spectral reading," a way to understand Jewishness as a
fluid and rhetorical presence. While not divorced from
sociological facts, this spectral reading works in concert
with contemporary theory to mediate pessimistic and utopian
impulses, experiences, and realities.},
Key = {fds339982}
}
@book{fds356395,
Author = {Ginsburg, S and Land, M and Boyarin, J},
Title = {Introduction: Jews, theory, and ends},
Pages = {1-25},
Year = {2018},
Month = {December},
ISBN = {9780823282005},
Key = {fds356395}
}
@book{fds227545,
Author = {Ginsburg, SP},
Title = {Rhetoric and nation: The formation of Hebrew national
culture, 1880–1990},
Pages = {1-476},
Year = {2014},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780815633334},
Abstract = {Recent and commonly accepted criticism holds that written
and spoken Hebrew reveals a shared logic, a collective
rhetoric that is identifiable and can be traced as an
evolving phenomenon throughout the centuries. In Rhetoric
and Nation, Ginsburg charts the emergence and formation of
the Hebrew discourse of the nation from the late nineteenth
century through the late twentieth century. In doing so, he
challenges these notions of a common rhetoric by considering
three areas of writing: literature, literary and cultural
criticism, and ideological and political writings. Ginsburg
argues that each text presents its own singular logic. Some
writing is determined by social and historical context.
Other writings are determined by the biographies of their
authors, still others by genre. Through close readings of
key canonical texts, Rhetoric and Nation demonstrates that
the Hebrew discourse of the nation should not be conceived
as coherent and cohesive but, rather, as an assemblage of
singular, disparate moments.},
Key = {fds227545}
}
@book{fds227551,
Author = {S. Ginsburg and Ginsburg, S and Horowitz, B},
Title = {Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel,
1880–2010},
Publisher = {Slavica Publishers},
Address = {Bloomington, IN},
Year = {2013},
Key = {fds227551}
}
@book{fds227569,
Author = {Man, PD},
Title = {The Resistance to Theory},
Publisher = {Resling},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds227569}
}
%% Papers Published
@article{fds375351,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {IMAGE, WORD, LAND},
Journal = {Hebrew Studies},
Volume = {64},
Pages = {255-268},
Year = {2023},
Month = {January},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
Doi = {10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
Key = {fds375351}
}
@article{fds355286,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture},
Year = {2020},
Month = {December},
Key = {fds355286}
}
@article{fds355287,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew
Children’s Literature},
Booktitle = {Since 1948 Israeli Literature in the Making},
Publisher = {SUNY Press},
Year = {2020},
Month = {October},
ISBN = {9781438480503},
Abstract = {As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for
recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once
accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and
science fiction—gained readership and positive critical
notice.},
Key = {fds355287}
}
@article{fds355289,
Author = {Ginsburg, S and Banbaji, A},
Title = {Introduction},
Journal = {Mikan},
Number = {20},
Pages = {5-25},
Year = {2020},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds355289}
}
@article{fds355290,
Author = {Ginsburg, S and Barzilai, M},
Title = {Rereading Hebrew Speech},
Journal = {Mikan},
Number = {20},
Pages = {198-227},
Year = {2020},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds355290}
}
@article{fds350274,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Mothers, Fathers, and the Hebrew Literary
Canon},
Journal = {Novel},
Volume = {52},
Number = {2},
Pages = {318-322},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2019},
Month = {August},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7547020},
Doi = {10.1215/00295132-7547020},
Key = {fds350274}
}
@article{fds350275,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Theory and
Literature},
Journal = {Novel},
Volume = {52},
Number = {1},
Pages = {156-160},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2019},
Month = {May},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7330326},
Doi = {10.1215/00295132-7330326},
Key = {fds350275}
}
@article{fds339983,
Author = {Ginsburg, S and Land, M and Boyarin, J},
Title = {Jews, Theory, and Ends},
Volume = {Jews and the Ends of Theory},
Pages = {1-26},
Booktitle = {Jews and the Ends of Theory},
Publisher = {Fordham University Press},
Editor = {Ginsburg, S and Land, M and Boyarin, J},
Year = {2018},
Key = {fds339983}
}
@article{fds339984,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Pessah Ginsburg: Two Letters (Christiania 1917; London
1918)},
Journal = {Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature},
Volume = {29},
Pages = {307-321},
Year = {2017},
Key = {fds339984}
}
@article{fds355291,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Literature, Colonialism, and Empire. Rev. of To Inherit the
Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry
in Eretz-Israel by Hannan Hever},
Journal = {Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature},
Number = {29},
Pages = {325-333},
Year = {2017},
Key = {fds355291}
}
@article{fds318000,
Author = {Paul de Man},
Title = {Autobiography as De-Facement},
Journal = {Miakn},
Number = {16},
Pages = {244-255},
Year = {2016},
Key = {fds318000}
}
@article{fds317999,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Paul de Man’s Death Mask},
Journal = {Mikan},
Number = {16},
Pages = {256-264},
Year = {2016},
Abstract = {This essay presents a close reading of Paul de Man’s
seminal essay, Autobiography as Defacement. It seeks to
uncover the unsettling effect de Man finds in autobiography
by paying close attention to the images of the suffering
human body and its death, which are central to his essay.
The current article contends that for de Man, the
autobiography manifests the human condition, which he sees
as a radical dualism of mind and body. Indeed, the human
condition is characterized by the inability of the mind to
account for the suffering of the body, and beyond that, by
an inability to articulate that suffering in
language.},
Key = {fds317999}
}
@article{fds227544,
Author = {Ginsburg, SP},
Title = {Alon Hilu and the Hebrew historical novel},
Journal = {Shofar},
Volume = {33},
Number = {4},
Pages = {134-157},
Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
Year = {2015},
Month = {June},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.2015.0029},
Abstract = {In this paper, I discuss Alon Hilu’s two historical
novels, Death of a Monk (2004) and The Dejani Estate (2008),
as symptomatic of Israeli culture of the twenty-first
century. I argue that the question of genre-historical
fiction-is as central to the construction of the novels as
it is to their reception. As the latter evinces, historical
fiction is perceived as blurring the proper boundaries
between the "objective" and the imaginary and thus feeds
anxieties about the relationship of Jews to history,
anxieties that have been haunting Zionist discourses from
their inception. Hilu’s novels trace these anxieties to
concerns about sexuality and desire and employ them to
explore the relationship between two central foci of the
Hebrew historical novel, namely, historical agency and
historical writing. The novels construct numerous "scenes of
writing," in which writing seeks to retrieve historical
agency, embodied in the two novels by desire and sexual
potency. Simultaneously, writing is revealed as a mere
substitute for desire and sex. Both novels consequently
suggest that writing attests to the failure to produce
historical agency.},
Doi = {10.1353/sho.2015.0029},
Key = {fds227544}
}
@article{fds318001,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Poetry and Conflict: on Civility, Citizenship and
Criticism},
Pages = {152-174},
Booktitle = {Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the Israel-Palestine
Conflict},
Publisher = {Parlor Press},
Editor = {Matthew Abraham},
Year = {2015},
ISBN = {978-1602356931},
Key = {fds318001}
}
@article{fds318002,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Rev. of Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, edited by Miri
Talmon and Yaron Peleg},
Journal = {IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual
Culture},
Number = {8},
Pages = {129-132},
Year = {2015},
Key = {fds318002}
}
@article{fds227546,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {The City and the Body: Jerusalem in Uri Tsvi Greenberg’s
Vision of One of the Legions},
Booktitle = {Jerusalem Across the Disciplines},
Editor = {Elman, M and Adelman, M},
Year = {2014},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds227546}
}
@article{fds318003,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {S. Yizhar’s Khirbet Khizeh and the rhetoric of
conflict},
Pages = {165-179},
Booktitle = {Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice},
Year = {2014},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9781611686395},
Key = {fds318003}
}
@article{fds227547,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Class and Historical Anxiety: The Rhetoric of Class in David
Ben-Gurion’s and Meir Ya’ari’s Thought (in
Hebrew)},
Booktitle = {Literature and Inequality},
Publisher = {The Van Leer Institute},
Editor = {Banbaji, A and Hever, H},
Year = {2014},
Key = {fds227547}
}
@article{fds227555,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {The Bookcase and the Language of Grace},
Journal = {Mikan},
Volume = {14},
Pages = {239-263},
Year = {2014},
Key = {fds227555}
}
@article{fds227556,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {War and Peace in Israel: Hebrew Literature and Russian
Literature in Hebrew, 1942–60},
Pages = {131-150},
Booktitle = {Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel,
1880–2010},
Publisher = {Slavica Publishers},
Address = {Bloomington, IN},
Editor = {Horowitz, B and Ginsburg, S},
Year = {2013},
Key = {fds227556}
}
@article{fds227560,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {From Ziklag One Cannot See Khirbet Khizeh},
Pages = {23-31},
Booktitle = {The Palestinian Nakba in Cinema and Literature},
Year = {2012},
url = {http://zochrot.org/content/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2-%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C},
Key = {fds227560}
}
@article{fds227564,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {The Physics of Being Jewish, or On Cats and
Jews},
Journal = {AJS Review},
Volume = {35},
Number = {2},
Pages = {357-364},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2011},
Month = {November},
ISSN = {0364-0094},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009411000444},
Abstract = {<jats:p>The opening scene of Joel and Ethan Coen's
<jats:italic>A Serious Man</jats:italic> has baffled many.
What does an unsettling tale of an encounter with what may
or may not be a dybbuk, set in the mid-nineteenth century in
a Polish shtetl, and played out entirely in Yiddish, have to
do with the story of a Jewish professor of physics and his
family in suburban Minnesota in the summer of 1967, related
in English? Is the scene to be viewed as a warm-up of sorts
before the main attraction, akin, if you will, to the
short-subject films—newsreels, animated cartoons, and
live-action comedies and documentaries—that movie houses
of old used to play before the main feature? If so, what is
the significance of presenting an odd Yiddish scene to an
American audience notorious for turning a cold shoulder to
non-English-speaking cinema? Or is the scene to be viewed as
a prologue to the movie? If so, in what sense could it be
said to impart to the audience either the “state of
suspense of the plot produced by the previous history” or,
alternatively, the argument of the drama?</jats:p>},
Doi = {10.1017/s0364009411000444},
Key = {fds227564}
}
@article{fds227561,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {An American Reflection: Steven Spielberg, the Jewish
Holocaust and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict},
Journal = {American Studies},
Volume = {34},
Number = {1},
Pages = {45-76},
Year = {2011},
Key = {fds227561}
}
@article{fds227562,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Love in Search of Belief, Belief in Search of
Love},
Pages = {371-376},
Booktitle = {The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema},
Year = {2011},
ISBN = {9781611682083},
Key = {fds227562}
}
@article{fds227563,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Studying Violence: The Films of Avi Mograbi},
Journal = {Takriv},
Number = {2},
Year = {2011},
url = {http://www.takriv.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:2011-08-02-16-02-41&catid=10:2011-08-14-09-14-03&Itemid=15},
Key = {fds227563}
}
@article{fds227568,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Rhetoric and Criticism: The Work and Life of Paul de
Man},
Booktitle = {The Resistance to Theory, by Paul de Man (Hebrew
Translation)},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds227568}
}
@article{fds227582,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Signs and wonders: Fetishism and hybridity in Homi Bhabha's
the location of culture},
Journal = {New Centennial Review},
Volume = {9},
Number = {3},
Pages = {229-250},
Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
Year = {2009},
Month = {December},
ISSN = {1532-687X},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncr.0.0082},
Doi = {10.1353/ncr.0.0082},
Key = {fds227582}
}
@article{fds227581,
Author = {Ginsburg},
Title = {Politics and Letters: On the Rhetoric of the Nation in
Pinsker and Ahad Ha-Am},
Journal = {Prooftexts},
Volume = {29},
Number = {2},
Pages = {173-173},
Publisher = {Indiana University Press},
Year = {2009},
ISSN = {0272-9601},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/pft.2009.29.2.173},
Abstract = {This essay seeks to amend a peculiar shortcoming in the
current scholarship on Ahad Ha-Am: whereas his style and
rhetoric are commonly celebrated, they are seldom examined
or analyzed in any detail. Scholarship tends to conflate his
literary with his political endeavors and to trace his
political impact to his preeminence as an essayist and
editor; yet this approach fails to account for his political
ineffectuality even at the height of his literary success.
This essay suggests, on the contrary, that his essays
manifest a struggle to reconcile the demands of politics
with those of rhetoric, that is, to reconcile the dialectic
form of his argument, the vehicle of his political argument,
with the figurative form his rhetoric aspires to achieve. In
a reading of three of Ahad Ha-Am's major essays, "Emet
me'erets yisra'el" (1891), "Te'udat Ha-Shilo'ah{dot below}"
(1896), and "Mosheh" (1904), the essay probes how this
struggle shapes his political vision, his literary vision,
and his perception of the role of the historical leader
(and, ostensibly, his own) in forming a national community.
The essay traces Ahad Ha-Am's difficulties in reconciling
rhetoric and politics to his tussle with the bequest of
Hibbat Zion literature. Whereas Ahad Ha-Am's reliance on
traditional Jewish genres, on the one hand, and on English
and German philosophical literature, on the other hand, has
been readily noted, his indebtedness, to the writings of
Hovevei Zion in general, and to that of Leo Pinsker in
particular, is yet to be recognized. It is in Pinsker, I
shall contend, that one finds one of the most important
precursors to Ahad Ha-Am, not only in politics, but in
rhetoric as well. Last, this essay probes the prevalent
(Marxist) model of reading the political character of Hebrew
literature. Such a model fails to give account for the
tension that structures the Ahad Ha-Am essay. Whereas this
model presupposes that literary rhetoric can take part in
the symbolic struggles that make up the political realm, the
reading of the Ahad Ha-Am essay put forward in this essay
questions the nature of the exchange between rhetoric and
politics. It thus suggests that a different model of reading
of rhetoric and politics is in need, a model that would
account for the failure to reconcile the two. © 2009 by
Prooftexts Ltd.},
Doi = {10.2979/pft.2009.29.2.173},
Key = {fds227581}
}
@article{fds227616,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {The Social Function of Israeli Cinema},
Journal = {Zeek},
Pages = {73-79},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds227616}
}
@article{fds227589,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Literature, Territory, Criticism: Brenner and the
"Erets-Israeli" Genre},
Journal = {Theory and Criticism},
Number = {30},
Pages = {39-62},
Year = {2007},
Key = {fds227589}
}
@article{fds227592,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Truth in the Land of Israel: On the Notion of Truth in the
Work of Ahad Ha-‘Am},
Pages = {260-275},
Booktitle = {A Moment of Birth: Studies in Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures
in Honor of Dan Miron},
Publisher = {Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik},
Editor = {Hever, H},
Year = {2007},
Key = {fds227592}
}
@article{fds303151,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Truth in the Land of Israel: On the Notion of Truth in the
Work of Ahad Ha-‘Am},
Pages = {260-275},
Publisher = {Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik},
Editor = {Hever, H},
Year = {2007},
Key = {fds303151}
}
@article{fds227594,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {"The rock of our very existence": Anton Shammas's Arabesques
and the rhetoric of Hebrew literature},
Journal = {Comparative Literature},
Volume = {58},
Number = {3},
Pages = {187-204},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2006},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {0010-4124},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/-58-3-187},
Doi = {10.1215/-58-3-187},
Key = {fds227594}
}
@article{fds227596,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Between Language and Land: Moshe Smilansky’s ‘Hawaja
Nazar’},
Journal = {Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature},
Volume = {20},
Pages = {221-235},
Year = {2006},
Key = {fds227596}
}
@article{fds227597,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir’s He Walked in the
Fields},
Pages = {110-127},
Booktitle = {Literature and Nation in the Middle East},
Publisher = {Edinburgh University Press},
Editor = {Suleiman, Y and Muhawi, I},
Year = {2006},
Key = {fds227597}
}
@article{fds227613,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Between Memory and History: Saul Friedlander as an
Autobiographical Writer and as a Historian},
Journal = {Theory and Criticism},
Volume = {17},
Pages = {217-222},
Year = {2000},
Key = {fds227613}
}
@article{fds227614,
Author = {Ginsburg, S},
Title = {Hamlet—In search of Language},
Journal = {Efes Shtayim},
Number = {3},
Pages = {153-157},
Year = {1995},
Key = {fds227614}
}
%% Film Reviews
@article{fds184656,
Title = {Studying Violence: The Films of Avi Mograbi},
Journal = {Zeek},
Pages = {67-72},
Year = {2010},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds184656}
}
