| Description |
xvi, 296 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making / Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history / Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America / Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants / Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination / David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America / Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture / Donald Weber -- Jewish American poetry / Maeera Y. Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the left / Alan Wald -- Jewish American Renaissance / Ruth R. Wisse -- Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination / Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question / Susan Gubar -- On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics / Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing / Tresa Grauer. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Jews -- Intellectual life.
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Judaism and literature.
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Judaism in literature.
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Jews in literature.
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| Added Author |
Wirth-Nesher, Hana, 1948-
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Kramer, Michael P., 1952-
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| ISBN |
0521796997 (pbk.) |
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9780521796996 (pbk.) |
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0521792932 |
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9780521792936 |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA3Y2708 |
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NLGGC 245820353 |
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