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Books on: jewish american literature

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Book by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature, Jews--United States--Intellectual Life, Judaism And Literature--United States, Judaism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...To call modern Jewish literature Jewish is more often than not...discerned (or imagined) Jewish part for the complexcultural...whole. To locate modern Jewish writing within the same...To imagine Jewish American literature in terms of...
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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

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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

"American Jewish writer," regarding it...the striking emergence of Jewish writers among the leading...legitimately--of this entry of Jewish writers into general recognition...for excellence in Jewish literature," the "contemporary Jewish...
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Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

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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

...The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic...Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...permission to reprint: Jewish Currents, Midstream...Studies in American Jewish Literature, and American...
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Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era

Book by Carol J. Batker; Columbia University Press, 2000

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--Minority Authors--History And Criticism, Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Political And Social Views, Journalism--United States--History--20th Century, Social Problems In Literature, Social Problems--United States--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women In Journalism--United States--History--20th Century, Women Social Reformers--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Southern History: A Mississippi Example. American Historical Review 100 1 2 April 1995...Americanization of Edna: A Study of Ms. Ferber's Jewish American Identity. Studies in American Jewish Literature 2 1982 : 69 80. Hoxie, Frederick E...
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The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature

Book by Norman Finkelstein; State University of New York Press, 1992

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American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Bloom, Harold, Jews--Intellectual Life, Judaism And Literature--History--20th Century, Judaism--20th Century, Ozick, Cynthia--Criticism And Interpretation, Scholem, Gershom Gerhard--1897-

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...burst of writing about American Jews." 13 It could...Howes concern is less for Jewish writing than for immigrant...a mode in American literature which is certainly past...observes that recent Jewish-American writers tend...in search of pan-Jewish fictional atmospheres...

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Journal Articles on: jewish american literature

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth

Journal article by Carole S. Kessner; American Jewish History, Vol. 90, 2002

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff...creative tension" in American Jewish literature. Making no secret...about Diaspora as a source of Jewish culture and power. Beginning...
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Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing

Journal article by Ranen Omer-Sherman; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 35, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Ethnic American Literature...Chicano, Jewish, and African...contribution to the literature of national...reading ethnic literatures in comparison...dismiss Jewish literature as being...of ethnic literatures, Franco...identity and American ethnicity...American literatures in which...elsewhere to Jewish literature to novels...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Journal article by Dara Horn; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003

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Books--Book reviews, The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...considers early Jewish American figures rarely...Monis, the first Jewish professor at Harvard...for a potential Jewish colony. Alan Mintzs...secret," Hebrew literature written in America...deals with Native Americans, a compelling...familiarity with Yiddish American writing that scholars of Jewish American literature...
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Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995

Journal article by Amy Weintraub Kratka; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995. by Amy Weintraub Kratka Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish...
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African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism

Journal article by Rachel Leah Jablon; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 27, 2010

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African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Native, and Jewish American Literature and the...African, Native, and Jewish American Literature...African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of...African, Native, and Jewish American writers confronted...and Jewish American literatures--all published between...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish american literature

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A Survey of Jewish-American Writing

Magazine article by Stephen Wade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 276, June 2000

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Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jews, American--Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...the future for this literature. The influential critic...USA. Other minority literatures are far more assertive...the side of this, Jewish writing hardly seems...however, that writing by Jewish Americans -- in all forms and...study of the subject, Jewish American Literature since 1945...
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Never Goodbye, Columbus : The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer

Magazine article by Morris Dickstein; The Nation, Vol. 273, October 22, 2001

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American Jews--Authorship, Goodbye, Columbus (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence, Howe, Irving--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, American--Authorship, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation, Roth, Philip--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...looked less to literature than to stand...tradition of the Jewish jokes that Freud...forefront of American entertainment...derision, besides Jewish mothers and Jewish...study of postwar American fiction, Leopards...Ideology and Jewish Identity in American and Israeli Literature, edited by Emily...
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New World Reorder: David Herman Hails the Younger Generation of Jewish-American Writers

Magazine article by David Herman; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, April 18, 2011

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American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, American fiction--Jewish authors, American writers--Appreciation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Appreciation, Authors, American--Works, Chabon, Michael--Appreciation, Chabon, Michael--Works, Englander, Nathan--Appreciation, Englander, Nathan--Works, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Appreciation, Foer, Jonathan Safran--Works, Gessen, Keith--Appreciation, Gessen, Keith--Works, Jewish American fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Appreciation, Jewish authors--Works, Jewish writers--Appreciation, Jewish writers--Works, Krauss, Nicole--Appreciation, Krauss, Nicole--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...outstanding anthology of Jewish-American literature. Over 1,200 pages, it covered the history of Jewish writing in America from...a generation of new Jewish-American writers was...Stalinism, South American dictatorships. They...refugees, or else young Americans who are fascinated by...
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Being Jewish: The Endless Quest

Magazine article by Oscar Handlin; American Scholar, Vol. 66, Summer 1997

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American Jews, Antisemitism--Social aspects, Jewish identity, Jews, American--Identity, Learning--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...other middle-class Americans. Writing in Race and Nationality in American Life (1957...the art, and the literature about them, thereby...the more general American revival of interest...impulses in American Jewish life. In the 1960s, Jews, like other Americans, had cast about...
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America-C'est Moi! Alfred Kazin on American Literature

Magazine article by Hilton Kramer; New Criterion, Vol. 22, April 2004

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American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Kazin, Alfred--Criticism and interpretation, Literary critics--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Moi! Alfred Kazin on American Literature. by Hilton Kramer...obsessive interest to him: American literature and himself...me as insufficiently Jewish. This, for Kazin...eminent scholar of American literature who served for many...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish american literature

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Ever a Berlin Presence; Jewish Sites Testify to Holocaust and Survival

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 21, 2002

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

...Museum, designed by American architect Daniel...invited 50 wealthy Jewish families expelled...synagogues as well as a Jewish theater. Today...art, theater, literature and politics are...was designed by American Peter Eisenman and...assembled in the Jewish Home for the Aged...
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Palestinian Lectures Anger Georgetown Jewish Students

Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, May 1, 1998

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

...Haters." Groups set up literature tables, and angry editorials...newspaper. Off-campus Jewish organizations also jumped...He also objected to Jewish guests Marc Ellis of Harvard and Simona Sharoni of American University as "fringe speakers." "They had a Jewish speaker on every panel...
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Being a Jew Is Dangerous Now; after Two London Synagogues Are Attacked, an Acclaimed Jewish Writer Charts a Disturbing New Rise in Anti-Semitism - and the Dark Parallels with Medieval Persecution ..

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 25, 2004

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

...theories - some anti-American, some anti-Zionist...groves blossoming with Jewish ingenuity amid the once...This was not good for my Jewish self-image. David...that statehood meant Jewish intellectuals, but also...class culture - and literature, too: see John Buchans...
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Jewish School Breaks Ground

Newspaper article by Ruth Gesmer Silverman; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 11, 2006

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...Grove, where Chicagoland Jewish High School currently...synagogues. It is the only Jewish school in the area not...of religious life. "Jewish values pervade all areas of study, whether its literature, science - including...students to be "leaders in American society and lay leaders...
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Weekend: FAMILY: Let Me Tell You a Story - It's Kosher; from Maureen Lipman's Beattie to the Yiddish Mamas of Woody Allen's Movies, Jewish Mothers Have an Overwhelming Stereotype to Live Up to. but What Is It Really like to Be a Kosher Mum? Jo Ind Investigates

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 12, 2005

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...sevenyear-old Hannah and literature programmer at the Midlands...with a smile. Sibyl is Jewish. She is also a mother...soup - these are what a Jewish mother is meant to be...him to feel any less Jewish. Ruth says that when...daughter-in-law is an American Rabbi, Marcia Plumb...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish american literature

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Bloomgarden, Solomon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...SOLOMON pseud. Yehoash yeho ash, 1870 1927, American writer in Yiddish, b. Lithuania. He emigrated...City. His poetry, which holds a high place in Jewish-American literature, includes the collections Through Mist and Sunshine...
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New York Public Library

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...economics, folklore, music, black history and literature, New York City, Jewish history, and Semitic languages. It has an...including the Berg collection of English and American literature. See histories by H. M. Lydenberg (1923...
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Jerusalem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Jewish and Christian literature as a symbol of the...of the Haram is the Jewish quarter, with several...rebuild and renovate the Jewish quarter. To the west of the Jewish quarter is the Armenian...Archaeological School, the American College, the Greek...
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Kitaj, R. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Kitaj)kiti , 1932 2007, American painter, b. Chagrin Falls...associated with British rather than American painting. Kitaj, his friend...art and political history, literature, Jewish history, and Jewish identity, are themes that...
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Judaism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...is not used in the Bible or in Rabbinic literature and only rarely in the literature of the...they believe can promote and enhance a Jewish, God-oriented life. In 1999, however, leaders of American Reform Judaism reversed century-old...

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