jewish american literature - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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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

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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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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The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic to Mass Immigration

Book by Louis Harap; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974

Subjects:

American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Jews In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...IMAGE OF THE JEW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE PHILADELPHIA THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY...the history of the Jewish character in American literature is also a chapter...presentation of the Jewish character in American literature was in its essentials...
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Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature

Book by David William Foster; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Argentine Drama--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Children's Literature, Latin American--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Latin America, Gays' Writings, Latin American--History And Criticism, Latin American Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--Latin America, Marginality, Social--Latin America

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Argentine Jewish dramatists...1. Latin American literature--History...literature, Latin American--History...Feminism and literature--Latin America...Argentine drama--Jewish authors...of Latin American Gay Culture...Childrens Literature and the Feminist...Argentine Jewish Dramatists...

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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

Subjects:

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

...the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995. by Amy Weintraub...the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995. Andrew Furman. Albany...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. by Dara Horn The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. By Michael P. Kramer and...writing that scholars of Jewish American literature should by now be required...
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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

Subjects:

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 and Roth...tendencies that have produced a "creative tension" in American Jewish literature. Making no secret of his own sentiments regarding...
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Immigrant Dreams and Civic Promises: (Con-)Testing Identity in Early Jewish American Literature and Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land

Journal article by Andrew Furman; MELUS, Vol. 25, 2000

Subjects:

Chinese American women--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immigrants--Social aspects, Jen, Gish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jews, American--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Identity in Early Jewish American Literature and Gish Jens...peak in 1907. Jewish American humor and literature shed a good bit...and reviews on Jewish American writers in such...as Contemporary Literature, Response, Forward...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing...Omer-Sherman Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing. Charlottesville...

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A Survey of Jewish-American Writing

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...contribution of Jewish American writers to mainstream literature has been significant...subject-matter of the new Jewish American literature. Roth had to explain...of the subject, Jewish American Literature since 1945, has...
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America-C'est Moi! Alfred Kazin on American Literature

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with God and the American Writer the reader...critical response to literature: One of the...insufficiently Jewish. This, for Kazin...the subject of Jewish conservatives...and historian of American literature or in responding...
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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

Subjects:

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-up...tradition of the Jewish jokes that...forefront of American entertainment...fear haunted Jewish-American writing...latecomers literature, almost a...Ideology and Jewish Identity in American and Israeli Literature, edited by...
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The Jewish "Declaration of War" against the Nazis

Magazine article by Berel Lang; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Spring 2006

Subjects:

Antisemitism--Analysis, Jewish radicals--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish radicals--Works, Kaufman, Theodore N.--Criticism and interpretation, Kaufman, Theodore N.--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...fictional character of literature--was unknown outside...the very idea of a Jewish "Declaration of War...the review columns of American periodicals "of record...to more than only its Jewish inhabitants. Even so, the tone of the American reviews (and of later...
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Being Jewish: The Endless Quest

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the unknown terrain of Jewish mysticism. I could...of other middle-class Americans. Writing in Race and...music, the art, and the literature about them, thereby...of such impulses in American Jewish life. In the 1960s...

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Hezbollah Won't Call Cease-Fire with Israel: Insists All Jewish Troops Leave Lebanon

Newspaper article by Betsy Pisik; The Washington Times, July 21, 1999

Subjects:

Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon

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

...cease-fire with Israel: Insists all Jewish troops leave Lebanon...man with degrees in English literature and journalism who is working...in political science at the American University of Beirut. "We...inviting everyone who smells Jewish - from Ethiopia, Morocco, Brooklyn...
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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

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

...mother of Joe and writer of childrens literature, has compiled an anthology, For Generations, Jewish Mothers. That stereotype was very present...carefully. Ruths daughter-in-law is an American Rabbi, Marcia Plumb, who has also contributed...
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Palestinian Lectures Anger Georgetown Jewish Students

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

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

...Haters." Groups set up literature tables, and angry editorials...newspaper. Off-campus Jewish organizations also jumped...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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Prejudice was part of upper-class culture - and literature, too: see John Buchans Jewish villains, George du Mauriers wicked Svengali...the media ... and even arranged 9/11. Anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have become...
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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to philosophy, art, theater, literature and politics are recorded...Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was Jewish. They also learn that the artists...under way. It was designed by American Peter Eisenman and is scheduled...memorials to the citys former Jewish population. On Oranienburger...

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Bloomgarden, Solomon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...for 10 years in Colorado (1900 1910), lived chiefly in New York City. His poetry, which holds a high place in Jewish-American literature, includes the collections Through Mist and Sunshine (1913) and In the Weaving (2 vol., 1919 21). The Feet...
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New York Public Library

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...especially fine collections on Americana, art, economics, folklore, music, black history and literature, New York City, Jewish history, and Semitic languages...collection of English and American literature. See histories by H. M...
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Judaism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...practices, Reform Jews perform only those rituals that they believe can promote and enhance a Jewish, God-oriented life. In 1999, however, leaders of American Reform Judaism reversed century-old teachings by encouraging but not enforcing the observance...
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Jastrow, Marcus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...MARCUS yas tro, jas , 1829 1903, American rabbi and Talmudic scholar, b. Poland...editor of the Talmud material of The Jewish Encyclopedia, and author of Dictionary...Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (1903). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Bellow, Saul

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

BELLOW, SAUL 1915 2005, American novelist, b. Lachine, Que., as Solomon...Northwestern Univ., 1937. Born of Russian-Jewish parents, he grew up in the slums...cent., he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. His novels include Dangling...

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