Author: Jacob KabakoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pioneers of American Hebrew Literature
Author: Jacob KabakoffTranslating Israel
Author: Alan L. MintzPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815628996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Reflects the rise of literature in modern-day Israel and the problematic reception of literature in America and within the American Jewish community. Israeli literature provides a unique lens for viewing th~ inner dynamics of this small but critically important society. In addition, its leading writers such as S. Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, and A. B. Yehoshua, among others, are recognized internationally as major world literary figures. Despite this international recognition, the rich literary tradition of Israeli literature has failed to reverberate and find significant readership or a following in America even among the American Jewish community. Alan L. Mintz traces the reception of Israeli literature in America from the 1970s to the present. He analyzes the influences that have shaped modern Israeli literature and reflects on the cultural differences that have impeded American and American Jewish appreciation of Israeli authors. Mintz then turns his attention to specific writers, examining their reception or lack thereof in America and places them within the emerging unfolding critical dialogue between the Israeli and American literary culture.
Pioneer Jews
Author: Harriet RochlinPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Henry Frank
Author: Madeleine B. SternThe American Hebrew
Author: Jews on the Frontier
Author: I. Harold SharfmanPublisher: Rachelle Simon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Although most Jews settled in the heavily populated Eastern cities, in forgotten records the author has discovered a colorful, important gallery of frontiersmen, traders, explorers, and military leaders, whose lives encompass the significant events of our history, from the French and Indian Wars to the Alamo"--Book jacket.
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.
Nothing Here But Stones
Author: Nancy OswaldPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805074659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.
Major Noah
Author: Isaac GoldbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494089658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
In Search of American Jewish Culture
Author: Stephen J. WhitfieldPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651710
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.