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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

...gifted group of serious American-Jewish writers has broken through the...regeneration and cultural renewal. American Jewish writers have been in the forefront...their 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

...context in which I seek to place modern Jewish writing here, I begin with an introductory...consider by these three preeminently refugee writers, deriving from three radically different...unfamiliarity of some of these authors to American readers will be compensated for by the...
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Tradition and Innovation: Reflections on Latin American Jewish Writing

Book by Robert Diantonio, Nora Glickman; State University of New York Press, 1993

Subjects:

Jews In Literature, Latin American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Latin American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1. Jewish Latin American Writers and Collective Memory...expanded Diaspora Latin American Jewish writers in exile again , the influence...number of contemporary Latin American Jewish writers. Some deal with a particular...
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction

Book by Sanford Pinsker; Southern Illinois University Press, 1991

Subjects:

American Fiction--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--United States--History, Metaphor, Schlemiel In Literature, Yiddish Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ways contemporary Jewish American writers have used that durable...assimilation among American Jewish writers in which joining...critics and fellow writers went about reconsidering...the heyday of the American Jewish renaissance is to...
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Hear O Israel: The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970

Book by Robert V. Friedenberg; University of Alabama Press, 1989

Subjects:

Jewish Preaching--United States--History, Judaism--United States--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Hear O Israel" The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970 Robert...Israel" The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970 The...Hear O Israel": the history of American Jewish preaching, 1654-1970 / Robert...

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Sweeping History of Jewish People, Religion, Notable for Its Omissions

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 24, 2002

Subjects:

Gilbert, Martin

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

...troubles me about the writers section on Jews in the...fact that the Soviet Jewish generals who served in...Habeck, two well known American historians who had access...so slight contemporary Jewish-American history and its leading...
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'Jewsical the Musical' Celebrates Jewish Humor

Newspaper article by Pam Defiglio; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 17, 2006

Subjects:

Humor, Wit and humor

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

...her personal experiences. As one of the writers of "Jewsical," she called up her mother...the show. Even though Sohn is writing Jewish humor, she has a hard time defining it...of comedy. "What is now thought of as American humor is largely Jewish humor," Patinkin...
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Being Chinese-Jewish-American in 1968

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, May 19, 1996

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

Being Chinese-Jewish-American in 1968...Evelyn Lau - and as writers they are no less...school, is heavily Jewish. This last is...to exercise her American right to self...Yiddish-sprinkled Jewish American, takes some getting...
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EARLY ROTH; Two Volumes Collect the Prolific Writer's First Fiction

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 18, 2005

Subjects:

Library of America

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

...doubt one of the best writers to emerge in the second...talent, and his place in American letters is assured. His...longer synonymous with his Jewish heritage, as well as...list of contemporary writers whose first name happens...everyone who cared about American letters celebrated and...
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World-Class Writers Who Found a Welcome at the Daily Post; over the Decades, the Daily Post Has Fostered Some of the Most Famous Names in British Journalism and Been the Lifelong Home to Other Much-Loved Writers Peter Elson Recalls Some of the Outstanding Talents

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 6, 2005

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

...Gestapo because his mothers family was Jewish. Comfortably settled in Princes Park...Oral Uniate Spoken English (SCOUSE). An American linguistics professor visited him after...political editor; leading Fleet Street feature writers and humorists Charles Nevin and Henry...

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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

...killing many prominent Jewish writers. Propaganda extolling...everything, even the American pastime of baseball...Brezhnev era leading writers, scientists, and intellectuals...dissidents included the writers Andrei Sinyavsky...
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Bloom, Harold

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...BLOOM, HAROLD 1930 , American literary critic and scholar...The son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Russia...struggle in which great writers interpret and revolt...accomplishments of 100 great writers. His interest in religious...biblical Pentateuch, The American Religion (1992), and...
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Malamud, Bernard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...falsely accused by the government of ritual murder. The Tenants (1971) describes the confrontation of two writers one Jewish, one African American and probes the nature of the art of writing. Among his other works are the novels The Natural (1952...
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