The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a
collaborative comparative and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding
methods of researching and teaching literatures. Disseminating Jewish Literatures compiles case
studies that represent a broad range of epistemological and textual approaches to the curricula
and research programs of literature departments in Europe Israel and the United States. In
doing so it promotes the integration of Jewish literatures into national philologies and the
implementation of comparative transnational approaches to the reading teaching and
researching of literatures. Instead of a dichotomizing approach Disseminating Jewish
Literatures endorses an exhaustive comprehensive conceptualization of the Jewish literary
corpus across languages. Included in this volume are essays on literatures in Arabic English
French German Hebrew Hungarian Italian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish and Turkish
as well as essays reflecting the fields of Yiddish philology and Latin American studies. The
volume is based on the papers presented at the Gentner Symposium funded by the Minerva
Foundation held at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2018.
