Booking passage : exile and homecoming in the modern Jewish imagination / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The poetics of pilgrimage: Yehuda Halevi and the uncompleted journey -- Lost in space: S.Y. Aramovitsh and the skeptical voyage -- In the heart of the seas: S.Y. Agnon and the epic of return -- By train, by ship, by subway: Sholem Aleichem and the American voyage of self-invention -- Writing poetry after Auschwitz: Paul Celan as the last barbarian -- Reclaiming a plot in Radautz: Dan Pagis and the prosaics of memory -- Between Bukovina and Jerusalem: Aharon Appelfeld and pilgrimage to the ruined shrine -- (Re)imagining Europe: the anachronistic tales of I.B. Singer -- The grapes of Roth: diasporism from Portnoy to Snylock -- Conclusion: the imagination of return and the return of imagination.