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Books on: "jewish authors" OR "jewish writers"

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The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

Book by Sam B. Girgus; University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature, Jews--United States--Intellectual Life, Judaism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Civilization--Jewish Influences

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...index. 1. American fiction Jewish authors History and criticism. 2. American...37 Of all contemporary Jewish authors, perhaps Saul Bellow most consistently...commitment to the American idea, Jewish writers follow in the path of earlier...
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Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis

Book by Robert Alter; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977

Subjects:

Hebrew Literature, Modern--History And Criticism, Jewish Authors, Jews In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Defenses of the Imagination Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis...more supposed than real -- between Jewish writers and the variegated background of Jewish...much more centrally concerned with Jewish writers as a symptomatic, if extreme, instance...
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Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

Subjects:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism, American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Jews in literature, Judaism and literature--United States--History--20th century

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

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

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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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers

Book by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz; University of Nebraska Press, 1997

Subjects:

German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, German Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence, Jewish Women--Germany--Intellectual Life, Jews--Germany--Intellectual Life

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...nomenclature in the modern era 50 . Jewish authors who first adopted the languages of...minority. In order to convey their ideas, Jewish writers were forced to infuse the German language...society, does not occur. For German-Jewish authors, the repressed Jewish reality is of...

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Journal Articles on: "jewish authors" OR "jewish writers"

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"Religion Is for God, the Fatherland Is for Everyone": Arab-Jewish Writers in Modern Iraq and the Clash of Narratives after Their Immigration to Israel

Journal article by Reuven Snir; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006

Subjects:

Arab-Jewish relations--Research, Jewish authors--International aspects, Jewish authors--Religious aspects, Jewish authors--Works, Jewish literature--History, Jewish literature--Religious aspects, Jewish literature--Social aspects, Jewish writers--International aspects, Jewish writers--Religious aspects, Jewish writers--Works, Jewish-Arab relations--Research, Modernization--Influence, Religious tolerance--Influence, Secularization--Influence

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...eleventh-thirteenth centuries, that we find Jewish authors so at home in fusha (literary...emergence of the new genre among Jewish writers, who were moving into a territory...achievements encouraged other Jewish writers to follow his example, as seen...
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Julie Galambush, the Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book

Journal article by Kathryn S. Light; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 42, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the Reluctant Parting: How the New Testaments Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book. by Kathryn S...The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testaments Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book. San Francisco, CA...
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The Relationship of Edmond Fleg and Andre Neher

Journal article by Joseph Sungolowsky; European Judaism, Vol. 35, 2002

Subjects:

Fleg, Edmond--Biography, French Jews--History, Jewish authors--History, Jewish writers--History, Jews, French--History, Neher, Andre--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...confront the post-Holocaust Jew. Both Fleg and Neher experienced in their personal lives as well as in their lives as Jewish writers and thinkers the consequences of the crises that affected modern day Judaism, namely the Dreyfus Affair, the Shoah and the...
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But Is It History? World of Our Fathers as a Historicized Text

Journal article by Andrew R. Heinze; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000

Subjects:

American Jews--History, Howe, Irving--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, American--History, Judaism--Portrayals, Socialism--Portrayals, World of Our Fathers (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...continues to wind his narrative around the great culture clash of Yiddish against America. He asks of the major postwar Jewish writers, "Can it really be said that any of these writers have thus far grasped a portion of the larger American experience with...
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Maimonides Editorial

Journal article by Esther Seidel; European Judaism, Vol. 37, 2004

Subjects:

Jewish authors--Appreciation, Jewish authors--Biography, Jewish authors--Works, Jewish writers--Appreciation, Jewish writers--Biography, Jewish writers--Works, Moses ben Maimon--Appreciation, Moses ben Maimon--Works, Philosophers--Appreciation, Philosophers--Biography, Philosophers--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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Magazine Articles on: "jewish authors" OR "jewish writers"

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The New Intellectuals

Magazine article by Robert S. Boynton; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 275, March 1995

Subjects:

African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Intellectual life--History, Intellectuals--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Being Jewish didnt play much of a role in either pursuit. "The New York intellectuals," Howe wrote, "were the first group of Jewish writers to come out of the immigrant milieu who did not define themselves through a relationship, nostalgic or hostile, to memories...
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The Shock of the Old

Magazine article by Morris Dickstein; The Nation, Vol. 279, December 13, 2004

Subjects:

Jewish authors--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Singer, Isaac Bashevis--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Corporations Reimagined

Magazine article by Michael Lerner; The Nation, Vol. 270, May 22, 2000

Subjects:

American literature, American literature--Jewish authors, Corporate social responsibility--Ethical aspects, Jewish writers, Tikkun (Periodical)--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
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My Lamented Sister: Etgar Keret Is Israel's Most Admired Short-Story Writer. but His First Taste of Celebrity, as He Describes Here, Came When He Lost His Beautiful, Funny Older Sibling to Orthodoxy

Magazine article by Etgar Keret; New Statesman, Vol. 136, March 5, 2007

Subjects:

Jewish authors--Personal narratives, Jewish women--Religious aspects, Jewish writers--Personal narratives, Women, Jewish--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Homosexual Millennium: Is It Here? Is It Approaching?

Magazine article by Richard Grenier; National Review, Vol. 45, June 7, 1993

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease) in mass media--Social aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Media coverage, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Angels in America (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Drake, David--Criticism and interpretation, Falsettos (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Gay literature--Criticism and interpretation, Jeffrey (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Kushner, Tony--Criticism and interpretation, Rudnick, Paul--Criticism and interpretation, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

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Newspaper Articles on: "jewish authors" OR "jewish writers"

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Loving Memoir from a Famed Author's Daughter

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Loving Memoir from a Famed Authors Daughter. Byline: Roger K. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Of the preeminent Jewish writers in American literature in the second half of the 20th century - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Edward Lewis Wallant...
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Puzzling the Jewish Paradox

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 28, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...it, Mick embodies a traditional Jewish concern with justice and compassion. Through him we enter the immigrant world many Jewish writers have made familiar: the bug-infested homes, the health-destroying sweatshops, Mosleys fascists. Less stereotyped is great-uncle...
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Extreme Sports Carnival

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...more information, call 703/838-4242. A celebration of authors Throughout this week and next some of todays best-known Jewish writers are showcasing their work at the fifth annual Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, at the Washington D...
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Shaping Public Attitudes

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Heidelberg already had been purged of Jewish faculty members, instituted a Nazi curriculum, and hosted a burning of books by Jewish authors. "Academic relationships have no political implications," Mr. Butler insisted. Columbia students knew better; they picketed...
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A Menace, Not a Martyr

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 22, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...which consists of a motley selection of articles putting Jews in the worst possible light. The trick is that many are by Jewish writers: the cumulative effect is to heap as many negative qualities on Jewish people and their history as possible. It culminates...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "jewish authors" OR "jewish writers"

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...were deported to Central Asia and Siberia. Stalin instituted another round of anti-Semitic purges, killing many prominent Jewish writers. Propaganda extolling Communisms achievements reached new heights, as the government claimed Russian origins for nearly...

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