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Studies in Modern Jewish Literature

Book by Arnold J. Band; Jewish Publication Society, 2003

Subjects:

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef--1888-1970--Criticism And Interpretation, Band, Arnold J, Hebrew Literature--History And Criticism, Jewish Authors, Jewish Literature--History And Criticism, Jews--Identity, Judaism And Literature, Rabbinical Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...history; he is negotiating with Jewish history. For the reader...is also a negotiation with Jewish history, and should be perceived...dealing with the text of an author so linguistically manipulative...imperative. Aside from the authors well-known habit of revising...that Agnon negotiates with Jewish history, we do not imply that...
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Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis

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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a fictional character to the author without the slightest modification...tradition to be essentially Jewish in nature," the real antecedent...conceives in the image of the Jewish financier, but he does not equate democracy with the rule of Jewish financiers. Lawrence, we recall...
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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

...American-Jewish, first by the Jewish identity of the author, and second by the ethnic character...writing by Jews that contains no Jewish ethnic element whatever, that...indistinguishable from the work of non-Jewish authors. Not all fiction dealing with...
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Book by Cynthia Scheinberg; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Aguilar, Grace--1816-1847--Religion, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Religion, Christian Poetry, English--19th Century--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--19th Century, English Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Jewish Poetry--History And Criticism, Jewish Women--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--England, Levy, Amy--1861-1889--Religion, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina--1830-1894--Religion, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...explicitly concerned with the idea of the Jewish author, the theory of poetry Levy puts...the door for a consideration of the Jewish author in English literary culture...universalized truth. Her 1886 article Jewish Humour, published in The Jewish...
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Jewish Women Fiction Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1998

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American Fiction--Jewish Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography, Jewish Authors--United States--Biography, Jewish Women In Literature, Jewish Women--United States--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women Authors, American--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...protagonist-narrator is a Jewish writer identifiable with the author herself. With disturbing unreserve...draw attention. The thoroughly Jewish concern of this work is the...Commandment, she says, and anti-Jewish in its very impulse. As a Jewish...

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Journal Articles on: jewish author

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Humorous Contemporary Jewish-American Authors: An Overview of the Criticism

Journal article by Don L.F. Nilsen; MELUS, Vol. 21, 1996

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American literature--Jewish authors, Criticism--Evaluation, Ethnic wit and humor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish wit and humor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...humor. She is a pivotal illustration of an author who has been influenced by Jewish writers and colleagues and, in turn, has...adult publishing world to be receptive to jewish humor. Jewish authors of humorous Young Adult novels present a...
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Circumcised Cinderella: The Fantasies of a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Author

Journal article by Tova Rosen; Prooftexts, Vol. 20, 2000

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Bible--O.T, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Literature, Yiddish Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Circumcised Cinderella: The Fantasies of a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Author TOVA ROSEN A TRANSSEXUAL WISH Our Father in Heaven! You who did miracles to our fathers by fire and water; you who turned the...
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Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception

Journal article by Hasia R. Diner; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000

Subjects:

American Jews--History, Emigration and immigration, Howe, Irving--Influence, Jewish authors--Influence, Jewish writers--Influence, Jews, Jews, American--History, Jews--Migrations, World of Our Fathers (Book)--Influence

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...public culture. The fact that non-Jewish reviewers in Jewish publications as well as in the general media praised the book, the author, and its subject matter offered a kind of validation to Jewish readers. Andrew Greeley, a Catholic...
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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

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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

...Heinze, Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption...Scholars Conference on American Jewish History, which convened in...of San Francisco. He is the author of Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants. Mass Consumption...Twentieth Century and is one of the authors of the forthcoming Columbia...
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Irving Howe's "Margin of Hope": World of Our Fathers as Autobiography

Journal article by Gerald Sorin; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000

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

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...mainly a result of the authors commitment to secular...sustaining force in Jewish culture. As late...A Treasury of Jewish Stories (New York...Twentieth Century Authors, op. cit., p...interview with author, April 7, 1997...and Director of the Jewish Studies program at...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish author

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Harvey Pekar: Mensch Author, Mensch Editor...and Other Jewish Comic Stars

Magazine article by Paul Buhle; Tikkun, Vol. 23, March 2008

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Comic books, Graphic novels, Magazines, Young adults literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Harvey Pekar: Mensch Author, Mensch Editor...and Other Jewish Comic Stars by Paul Buhle BOOKS...Mensch Editor...and other Jewish Comic Stars Recent comics reviewed...day job. And the day of the Jewish comic artist has arrived as well...
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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

...Herman Hails the Younger Generation of Jewish-American Writers. by David Herman...brought out an outstanding anthology of Jewish-American literature. Over 1,200 pages, it covered the history of Jewish writing in America from the mid-17th...
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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

A SURVEY OF JEWISH-AMERICAN WRITING by Stephen Wade SINCE...growing awareness that the contribution of Jewish American writers to mainstream literature...than, say. Woody Allens explication of Jewish problems of identity in his textualising...
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Turning the Page on Mexican Women: Born to a Jewish Immigrant Family, Rosa Nissan Transcended Cultural and Personal Obstacles to Question the Traditional Role of Females in Works Celebrating Their Identity

Magazine article by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, November 2005

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Authors, Mexican--Services, Authors, Mexican--Works, Female identity--Prognosis, Jewish women--Portrayals, Mexican writers--Services, Mexican writers--Works, Nissan, Rosa--Services, Nissan, Rosa--Works, Women, Jewish--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Mexico, for the Mexican woman (Jewish or not) has not seen herself...This novel is not focused on Jewish heritage, only mentioned in...suffered a delay due to the authors serious car accident in 2003...special series of works by Jewish writers. Three moments dramatically...
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Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

Magazine article by David Cesarani; History Today, Vol. 59, September 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...worse persecution of their fully Jewish relatives. They were quickly...cost of fighting for an anti-Jewish regime. David Cesarani is the author of Major Farrans Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britains War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-48 (Heinemann...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish author

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Masterpiece in a Suitcase; the Incredible Story of How the Last and Greatest Work of a Jewish Author Was Rescued from the Nazis by Her Heroic Daughter - and Why It Has Been Kept a Secret for More Than 60 Years

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 12, 2006

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

...How the Last and Greatest Work of a Jewish Author Was Rescued from the Nazis by Her...Nemirovsky, is an acclaimed French author. My father, Michel Epstein, is...bank. Their only crime is being Jewish. Four days later, we receive another...
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MEET THE AUTHORS; Jewish Book Week

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 18, 2005

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

MEET THE AUTHORS; Jewish Book Week. Byline...in person as part of 2005s Jewish Book Week. Running from March...Britains annual celebration of Jewish-interest literature and far...Highlights include a debate on The Jewish Question and the resurgence...writer. Bestselling Israeli author Etgar Keret will be talking...
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The Genetics of Jewish Ancestry

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 28, 2007

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

...fruitful. One involved 300 Jewish males, one-third of whom...males from every corner of the Jewish Diaspora, whether Bombay...The researchers, and the author, have staunchly maintained...They considered themselves Jewish and called themselves such...
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Puzzling the Jewish Paradox

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

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Books--Book reviews

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

...worlds", finding comfort in a Jewish identity which binds him to a...not gone away, but deplores a Jewish identity based on the Holocaust...then, paradox is part of being Jewish. Theo Richmond is the author of Konin: A Quest.
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Avoiding Answers to Jewish Survival

Newspaper article by Abby Wisse; The Washington Times, May 12, 1996

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

...Avoiding answers to Jewish survival by Abby...Meanwhile, the author, a professor of...political parties. The author never asks what effect...also chronicles the Jewish revival in Western...community, although the author does have concrete...only segment of the Jewish community in Europe...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish author

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Jastrow, Marcus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Talmudic scholar, b. Poland. He was a rabbi (1866 92) in Philadelphia, editor of the Talmud material of The Jewish Encyclopedia, and author of Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (1903...
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Kalisch, Isidor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

KALISCH, ISIDOR ezedor ka lish, ka , 1816 86, Jewish rabbi and author, b. Prussia. Forced to leave Germany because of his liberal political views, he emigrated to the United States in 1849 and...
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Jabotinsky, Vladimir

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...into Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River...War II he worked for the creation of a Jewish army. He was the author of several books, including The Story of the Jewish Legion (tr. 1945). See biography...
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Ansky, Shloime

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1863 1920, Russian-Yiddish author. He extensively researched regional Jewish folklore and incorporated folk...by Vakhtangov in the Moscow Jewish theater (the Habimah ) and...the onslaught on the regions Jewish communities in World War I...
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Kook, Abraham Isaac

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ABRAHAM ISAAC kook, 1864 1935, Jewish scholar and philosopher...who worked to build up the Jewish homeland were unknowingly...universalism. He was the author of several books that were influential among Jewish nationalists. See biography...

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