| Description |
xviii, 395 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-384) and index. |
| Contents |
The comedy of endurance : Sholem Aleichem -- The logic of language and the trials of the Jews : Franz Kafka and Yosef Haim Brenner -- Literature of the Russian Revolution : from Isaac Babel to Vasily Grossman -- Between the wars : the Singer family of Warsaw -- A farewell to Poland : Jacob Glatstein and S. Y. Agnon -- Shoah, Jhurbn, Holocaust : testimonies in native and adopted tongues -- The Zionist fate in English hands : from George Eliot to A. M. Klein -- The immigrant phase : American Jewish fiction from 1900 to 1950 -- Writing beyond alienation : Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth -- A chapter in the making : Israeli literature. |
| Subject |
Jewish fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Canon (Literature)
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Jews in literature.
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| ISBN |
0684830752 |
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