The Image of the Jew in American Literature
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1974
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Louis Harap
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File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Louis Harap
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815629917
Praiseworthy and complete scholarship make this the definitive work on the subject.
Author : Harold Fisch
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Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780901057037
Author : Andrew Furman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : 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 : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393048094
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Author : Aaron Tillman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : 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 : Matthew Baigell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780815630678
Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influential artists as Mark Rothko, Max Weber, and Ruth Weisberg, Baigell directly confronts their Jewish identity—as a religious, cultural, and psychological component of their lives—and explores the way in which this influence is reflected in their art. Drawing upon their common heritage, Baigell reveals the different ways these artists responded to the Great Immigration, the Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, and the rise of feminism. Each artist’s varied Jewish experiences have contributed to the creation of a visual language and subject matter that reflect both Jewish assimilation and Jewish continuity in ways that inform modern Jewish history and changes in present-day America. Offering a fresh examination of well-known artists as well as long overdue attention to lesser-known artists, Baigell’s incisive observations are indispensable to our understanding of the Jewish themes in these artists' work. Written in a lively and spirited prose, this book is compulsory reading for those interested in modern American art and Jewish studies.
Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739172980
The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.