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Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 200 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Traces 50 years' development of Jewish American fiction, poetry, and humor as it analyzes fictional portrayals of Jews themselves.
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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 208 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full...
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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature » Read Now
by Michael P. Kramer, Hana Wirth-Nesher. 299 pgs.

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Jewish Americans produced some of the most important writing in the U.S. in the twentieth century. This Companion addresses the distinctive Jewish American contribution to American literary criticism, poetry and popular culture. It establishes the broadest possible context for the discussion of...
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Jewish Americans produced some of the most important writing in the U.S. in the twentieth century. This Companion addresses the distinctive Jewish American contribution to American literary criticism, poetry and popular culture. It establishes the broadest possible context for the discussion of Jewish American identity as it intersects with the corpus of American literature. Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, the volume is valuable to scholars and students alike.
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Jewish Women Fiction Writers » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis » Read Now
by Robert Alter. 266 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...which I seek to place modern Jewish writing here, I begin with...unfamiliarity of some of these authors to American readers will be...them Marxists, most of them Jewish...
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Dramatic Encounters: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Drama, Poetry, and Humor and the Black-Jewish Literary Relationship » Read Now
by Louis Harap, Jacob Marcus Rader. 180 pgs.

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"There is so much to Louis Harap's three volumes, this extraordinary trilogy, that a reviewer can only hint at the depth, penetrating intelligence, research, and insight of the author. This is a monumental work." American Jewish Archives
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King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers » Read Now
by Stephen A. Sadow. 266 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In this collection of fifteen essays, Jewish Latin American writers speak for themselves about their lives, their literary work, their formative experiences, and the Jewish communities in Latin America and the United States.
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A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory » Read Now
by Norman Ravvin. 194 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Focusing on the way Jewish history -- particularly the Holocaust -- and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb...
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Focusing on the way Jewish history -- particularly the Holocaust -- and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers as well as places their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory.
Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb.
At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.
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Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers » Read Now
by Jules Chametzky. 155 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...index. 1. American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism-- Addresses...Five Edward Dahlberg: The Jewish Orphan in America 78 Six Elmer...the Assimilation of the...
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel » Read Now
by Sanford Pinsker. 202 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...criticism. 3. American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. I. Title...that period in which American Jewish authors confronted American reality...novel...
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From Exile to Redemption: The Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer » Read Now
by Grace Lee Farrell. 130 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Torah and developed for generations by Jewish mystics. 2 One of the concerns central...historical experience of the exile of the Jewish people with a mystical understanding...
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Dreamer of the Ghetto: The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill » Read Now
by Joseph H. Udelson. 320 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Continent, Westernized Jewish authors of the "ghetto" stories...fellow citizens. Anglo-Jewish authors during the final decades...German-speaking lands, where several...
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Saul Bellow against the Grain » Read Now
by Ellen Pifer. 204 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Humorous Contemporary Jewish-American Authors: An Overview of the Criticism, in MELUS » Read Now
by Don L.F. Nilsen. 31 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Humorous contemporary Jewish-American authors: an overview of the criticism...COMPARISONS OF CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AUTHORS In an article entitled "We...Konigsburg, and Mary...