Author: Jules ChametzkyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393048094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Author: Andrew FurmanPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Examines eight Jewish-American writers--Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich--who have "imagined" Israel in their work.
Jewish American Literature
Author: Jules ChametzkyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393048094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Who We Are
Author: Derek RubinPublisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307493113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn, among the youngest of these writers, describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and advocates a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. Here are the stories of how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry, Chaim Potok on being transformed by the work of Evelyn Waugh. Here, too, are Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Jonathon Rosen, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Alan Lelchuk, Rebecca Goldstein, Nessa Rapoport, and many more. Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays — by turns nostalgic, comic, moving, and deeply provocative- constitute an invaluable investigation into the thinking and the work of some of America’s most important writers.
Jewish American Writing and World Literature
Author: Saul Noam ZarittPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198863713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book explores how Jewish American writers like Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley think of themselves as world writers, and the successes and failures that come with this role.
American Jewish Fiction
Author: Josh LambertPublisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827610025
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.
America and I
Author: Joyce AntlerPublisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
America and I is the first anthology to chronicle the female tradition in 20th century American Jewish literature. Containing 23 short-stories by some of the best short-story practitioners, the book traces the remarkable output of Jewish women writers from 1900 to the present day.
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
Author: Hana Wirth-NesherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316395340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.
The New Jewish American Literary Studies
Author: Victoria AaronsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842628X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.
Modern Jewish Women Writers in America
Author: E. AveryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230604846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
Author: Hana Wirth-NesherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521796996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.