Masterpieces of Jewish American Literature
Author : Sanford V. Sternlicht
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Category : American literature
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Author : Sanford V. Sternlicht
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Category : American literature
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Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313082324
Jewish Americans have produced some of the most imaginative, provocative, and widely read literary works of the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten of the most significant works of Jewish American literarure. An introductory chapter discusses the historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of Jewish American literature. This is followed by chapters on ten major works by Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Henry Roth, Meyer Levin, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Chiam Potok, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick. Each chapter provides a biography, a plot summary, a discussion of character development, an analysis of themes, an examination of narrative style, an exploration of historical context, and suggestions for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. These works reflect the hopes and dreams of Jewish Americans, as well as their challenges and troubles. These works help students understand the cultural and historical events central to Jewish Americans in the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten masterpieces of Jewish American literature.
Author : Derek Rubin
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307493113
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn, among the youngest of these writers, describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and advocates a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. Here are the stories of how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry, Chaim Potok on being transformed by the work of Evelyn Waugh. Here, too, are Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Jonathon Rosen, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Alan Lelchuk, Rebecca Goldstein, Nessa Rapoport, and many more. Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays — by turns nostalgic, comic, moving, and deeply provocative- constitute an invaluable investigation into the thinking and the work of some of America’s most important writers.
Author : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393048094
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Author : Henry Roth
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466855282
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.
Author : Curt Leviant
Publisher : New York : Ktav Publishing House
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Collections
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Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300190395
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781584651710
A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
Author : Leah Garrett
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810131455
Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category Winner, 2017 AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American public’s ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. In contrast to most previous war fiction these new “Jewish” war novels were often ironic, funny, and irreverent and sought to teach the reading public broader lessons about liberalism, masculinity, and pluralism.
Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295805676
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.