The Image of the Jew in American Literature
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Author | : Louis Harap |
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Author | : Louis Harap |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815629917 |
Praiseworthy and complete scholarship make this the definitive work on the subject.
Author | : Harold Fisch |
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Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780901057037 |
Author | : Jules Chametzky |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393048094 |
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Author | : Andrew Furman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438403518 |
CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.
Author | : Aaron Tillman |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498565034 |
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture—language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans—Aaron Tillman asks how we portray identities and differences that seem to resist concrete definition. Over the course of Magical American Jew, Tillman examines this enigma—the indefinite yet undeniable difference that informs contemporary Jewish American identity—demonstrating how certain writers and filmmakers have deployed magical realist techniques to illustrate the enigmatic difference that Jewish Americans have felt and continue to feel. Similar to the indeterminate nature of Jewish American identity, magical realism is marked by paradox and does not fit easily into any singular category. Often characterized as a mode of literary expression, rather than a genre within literature, magical realism has been the subject of debates about definition, origin, and application. After elucidating the features of the mode, Tillman illustrates how it enables uniquely cogent portrayals of enigmatic elements of difference. Concentrating on a diverse selection of Jewish American short fiction and film—including works by Woody Allen, Sarah Silverman, Cynthia Ozick, Nathan Englander, Steve Stern, and Melvin Jules Bukiet— Magical American Jew covers a range of subjects, from archiving Holocaust testimony to satirical Jewish American humor. Shedding light on aspects of media, marginalization, excess, and many other facets of contemporary American society, the study concludes by addressing the ways that the magical realist mode has been and can be used to examine U.S. ethnic literatures more broadly.
Author | : Harold B. Segel |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501718290 |
A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works—mainly fiction—by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990.
Author | : Gil Ribak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813552192 |
The very question of “what do Jews think about the goyim” has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. Much has been written about immigrant Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City, but Gil Ribak’s critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gentile New York examines these newcomers’ evolving feelings toward non-Jews through four critical decades in the American Jewish experience. Ribak considers how they perceived Gentiles in general as well as such different groups as “Yankees” (a common term for WASPs in many Yiddish sources), Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, and African Americans. As they discovered the complexity of America’s racial relations, the immigrants found themselves at odds with “white” American values or behavior and were drawn instead into cooperative relationships with other minorities. Sparked with many previously unknown anecdotes, quotations, and events, Ribak’s research relies on an impressive number of memoirs, autobiographies, novels, newspapers, and journals culled from both sides of the Atlantic.
Author | : Lester D. Friedman |
Publisher | : Frederick Ungar |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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