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Books on: jewish writer

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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

...like the Menorah Journal , the Jewish Frontier which he edited from...Reznikoff as "one of the finest writers of his generation," on a...whole phenomenon of American Jewish writing because no one has...effort to be both a conscious Jewish writer and an emphatically American...
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The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

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

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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

...writer and intellectual. The Jewish writer has to face "being...RM , p. 83). To the Jewish writer, however, such tension can...characteristics of this innovative Jewish style and the forces that help to shape it. He writes: When writers who do not feel much of a connection...
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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...magazine by a young writer with a less secure reputation...on the works of other writers, is intended to undermine...attention. The thoroughly Jewish concern of this work...very impulse. As a Jewish artist, Miss Ozick...fact, an intellectual writer whose works are the...
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Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers

Book by Jules Chametzky; University of Massachusetts Press, 1986

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Assimilation of the American Jewish Writer," and the issues raised by...discerned in the development of the Jewish American literary voice. Although...historical development of the Jewish situation in America over several...was paradigmatic for American writers generally. Such a view might...
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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

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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

...men and women. Rather than disrupt Jewish stereotypes, Disches work appears...Heights, formerly a center of German Jewish immigration and Disches childhood...she refuses to define herself as a Jewish writer, perhaps because identifying herself...

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Journal Articles on: jewish writer

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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

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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

...Experience into Fiction: Israeli Writers on Jewish-Arab Relations (the Case...Michael, "On Being an Iraqi-Jewish Writer in Israel," Prooftexts 4...Exile, 391-94; Kerbel, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century, 42...
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Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

Journal article by Cathy Gelbin; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers. by Cathy Gelbin Words from Abroad...Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers. By KATJA GARLOFF...different twist had texts by German Jewish writers received in the GDR also been...
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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

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

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...Parting: How the New Testaments Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book. by Kathryn...Parting: How the New Testaments Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book...The second part focuses on the "Jewish" passages found in each of the...
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Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture

Journal article by Hana Wirth-Nesher; American Jewish History, Vol. 95, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture. by Hana...culture, but have also contributed to the Jewish identity fashioned by major American Jewish writers and thinkers. Furthermore, Exiles on...
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Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled

Journal article by Amy Weintraub Kratka; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

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Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled (Book)--Reviews

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Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma...work of the contemporary Jewish American fiction writers on whom I have decided...late twentieth century Jewish American texts. If such writers are indeed living a cultural...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish writer

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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

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...it covered the history of Jewish writing in America from the...at which a generation of new Jewish-American writers was exploding...generation of talented young writers, but the emergence of distinctive...who also happens to be a writer, who has created a character...set in an eastern European Jewish community that has survived...
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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

...exasperated pieces about young writers whose work already seemed...once heard the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld tell a New York audience that Jewish writing was grounded...set aside. The Ghost Writer deals with Nathan Zuckermans...portraits of the older writers are perfectly in tune...the great Soviet-Jewish writer murdered by Stalin...
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California Calling: Jewish Writer Documents Racism in Israeli Films

Magazine article by Pat Twair, Samir Twair; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIV, September 1995

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Arabs, California, Discrimination, Industry, Literature, Motion picture industry, New York, NY, Nonfiction, Shohat, Ella Habiba

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...California Calling: Jewish Writer Documents Racism in Israeli...Habiba Shohat, an Iraqi-Jewish Israeli who teaches at City...century philosopher who expounded Jewish law in Arabic)." The chasm...after. We dont want Sephardic Jewish and Palestinian kids to be...Samir Twair are free-lance writers from Southern California...
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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

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Lamented Sister: Etgar Keret Is Israels Most Admired Short-Story Writer. but His First Taste of Celebrity, as He Describes Here...Chatto Windus), in London on Sunday 4 March as part of Jewish Book Week. For details, go to www.jewishbookweek.com www...
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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

...on Mexican Women: Born to a Jewish Immigrant Family, Rosa Nissan...many Mexicans knew they were Jewish, but that their ethnic background...considerably on her life) in a writers workshop with her coach, well-known writer Elena Poniatowska (see "Elena...Guita Schyfter was looking for Jewish personal accounts to help create...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish writer

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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

...Synagogues Are Attacked, an Acclaimed Jewish Writer Charts a Disturbing New Rise in Anti...Israeli girls in groves blossoming with Jewish ingenuity amid the once-sterile...toilets. This was not good for my Jewish self-image. David Ben-Gurion...
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This Woman Lecturer Is Peddling the Oldest Form of Hatred. Why Can No One Stop Her? A LEADING JEWISH WRITER DAMNS THE CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH ACADEMIC BEHIND THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 27, 2005

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

...Hatred. Why Can No One Stop Her? A LEADING JEWISH WRITER DAMNS THE CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH ACADEMIC...of Israel, as in countless instances in Jewish history, an exception has been made of Jews. A Jewish enterprise, this time the Jewish state...
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Mind Your Language, Ken; as the London Assembly Probes the Mayor's "Nazi" Outburst against a Journalist, One Jewish Writer Asks Why the Language of the Holocaust Is Being So Debased

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 14, 2005

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Livingstone, Ken

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

...Outburst against a Journalist, One Jewish Writer Asks Why the Language of the Holocaust...reporter, who just happens to be Jewish, a "German war criminal". In...not to say foolhardy language, the Jewish community is up in arms. Quite properly...
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Fighting the Extremists; as an Islamic Cleric Spreads His Gospel of Hate in London, One Jewish Writer Considers His Response

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 9, 2004

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Herzl, Theodor

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

...Islamic Cleric Spreads His Gospel of Hate in London, One Jewish Writer Considers His Response. Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT PROFESSOR...That was pure Zionism: the renewal of a region through Jewish capital, energy and ethics. Thousands surged to work...
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No, Muslims Are Not the 'New Jews'; Jews in Britain Saw Themselves as Part of the Nation, Not a Nation Apart. Muslims Today Could Learn from That, Says One Jewish Writer

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 6, 2007

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Muslims, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Soldiers

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...Could Learn from That, Says One Jewish Writer. Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT THESE...armed forces. Elements within the Jewish community may have been attracted...secular preocupations unrelated to the Jewish faith, and they did not attack the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish writer

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Jacobs, Joseph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JACOBS, JOSEPH 1854 1916, Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist, b. Australia...to the United States to edit a revision of The Jewish Encyclopedia. He was later a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and editor...
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Sinyavsky, Andrey Donatovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...of Abram Tertz. In 1965, he was arrested along with the Jewish writer Yuly Daniel and sentenced to hard labor for anti-Soviet...France, where he and his wife published works by other emigre writers. Sinyavskys novels The Trial Begins (1956, tr. 1961...
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Sokolow, Nahum

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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SOKOLOW, NAHUM na m so k lo, 1859 1936, Jewish writer and Zionist leader, b. Poland. He served (1906 9) as general secretary of the Zionist Organization, editing its various publications...
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Einhorn, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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EINHORN, DAVID in horn, 1809 79, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States. Born in Bavaria, he studied philosophy at Munich and was influenced...
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Gaster, Moses

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...gas t r, 1856 1939, Romanian Jewish scholar and writer, b. Bucharest. Expelled (1885) from Romania for championing the Jewish cause, he went to England and...Holy and Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways (1955), and Myth...

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