Affiliated Identities In Jewish American Literature

Author : David Hadar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501360923

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Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar Pdf

Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which writers intentionally highlight and perform their connections with other writers. Starting with Philip Roth as an entry point and recurring example, David Hadar reveals a larger network of authors involved in formations of Jewish American literary identity, including among others Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander. He also shows how Israeli writers such as Sayed Kashua perform their own identities through connections to Jewish Americans. Whether by incorporating other writers into fictional work as characters, interviewing them, publishing critical essays about them, or invoking them in paratext or publicity, writers use a variety of methods to forge public personas, craft their own identities as artists, and infuse their art with meaningful cultural associations. Hadar's analysis deepens our understanding of Jewish American and Israeli literature, positioning them in decentered relation with one another as well as with European writing. The result is a thought-provoking challenge to the concept of homeland that recasts each of these literary traditions as diasporic and questions the oft-assumed centrality of Hebrew and Yiddish to global Jewish literature. In the process, Hadar offers an approach to studying authorial identity-building relevant beyond the field of Jewish literature.

Author : Emily Miller Budick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791490143

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Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature by Emily Miller Budick Pdf

By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities. The disinclination of Israeli and American Jewish fictional narratives to gravitate toward one another tells us much about the processes of Jewish self-definition as expressed in literary texts over the last fifty years. Through essays by prominent Israeli Americanists, American Hebraists, Israeli critics of Hebrew writing, and American specialists in the field of Jewish writing, the book shows how modern Jewish culture rewrites the Jewish tradition across quite different ideological imperatives, such as Zionist metanarrative, the urge of Jewish immigrants to find Israel in America, and socialism. The contributors also explore how that narrative turn away from religious tradition to secular identity has both enriched and impoverished Jewish modernity.

Author : Benjamin Schreier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812297560

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The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature by Benjamin Schreier Pdf

Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley—must also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point that the field cannot avoid repeating and replaying in instantiating itself as the more or less formalized academic study of Jewish American literature. More than sixty years later, the field's legibility, the very condition of its possibility, remains overwhelmingly grounded in a reliance on this single ethnological narrative. In a polemic against what he sees as the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier interrogates a series of professionally powerful assumptions about Jewish American literary history—how they came into being and how they hardened into cliché. He offers a critical genealogy of breakthrough and other narratives through which Jewish Studies has asserted its compelling self-evidence, not simply under the banner of the historical realities Jewish Studies claims to represent but more fundamentally for the intellectual and institutional structures through which it produces these representations. He shows how a historicist scholarly narrative quickly consolidated and became hegemonic, in part because of its double articulation of a particular American subject and of a transnational historiography that categorically identified that subject as Jewish. The ethnological grounding of the Jewish American literary field is no longer tenable, Schreier asserts, in an argument with broad implications for the reconceptualization of Jewish and other identity-based ethnic studies.

Author : Judith Ruderman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253036995

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Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman Pdf

In Passing Fancies Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today’s contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and environment, rather than essential qualities. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity—seeking, on the one hand, deep engagement with Jewish history and the experiences of the Jewish people, while holding steadfastly, on the other hand, to the understanding that identity is fluid and multivalent. Looking at a carefully chosen set of texts from American literature, Ruderman elaborates on the strategies Jews have used to "pass" from the late 19th century to the present—nose jobs, renaming, clothing changes, religious and racial reclassification, and even playing baseball. While traversing racial and religious identities has always been a feature of America’s nation of immigrants, Ruderman shows how the complexities of identity formation and deformation are critically relevant during this important cultural moment.

Author : Benjamin Schreier
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479858026

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The Impossible Jew by Benjamin Schreier Pdf

He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies; suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept critical literary studies as a legitimate part of its project; and so often refusing itself to engage in self-critique. The Impossible Jew interrogates how the concept of identity is critically put to work by identity-based literary study. Through readings of key authors from across the canon of Jewish American literature and culture—including Abraham Cahan, the New York Intellectuals, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Safran Foer—Benjamin Schreier shows how texts resist the historicist expectation that self-evident Jewish populations are represented in and recoverable from them. Through ornate, scabrous, funny polemics, Schreier draws the lines of relation between Jewish American literary study and American studies, multiethnic studies, critical theory, and Jewish Studies formations. He maintains that a Jewish Studies beyond ethnicity is essential for a viable future of Jewish literary study.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426282

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The New Jewish American Literary Studies by Victoria Aarons Pdf

Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.

Author : Lois E. Rubin
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : 087413899X

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Connections and Collisions by Lois E. Rubin Pdf

This anthology of scholarship on Jewish women writers is the first to focus on what it is to be a woman and a Jew and to explore how the two identities variously support and oppose each other. The collection is part of a growing scholarship that reflects the enormous output of writing by Jewish women since the second wave of the women's movement in the 1970s.

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer Pdf

For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055104684

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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature by Ranen Omer-Sherman Pdf

An in-depth exploration of the work of four major writers confronting Jewish nationalism and the fate of the diaspora.

Author : Susanne Zepp,Ruth Fine,Natasha Gordinsky,Kader Konuk,Claudia Olk,Galili Shahar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110619072

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Disseminating Jewish Literatures by Susanne Zepp,Ruth Fine,Natasha Gordinsky,Kader Konuk,Claudia Olk,Galili Shahar Pdf

The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding methods of researching and teaching literatures. Disseminating Jewish Literatures compiles case studies that represent a broad range of epistemological and textual approaches to the curricula and research programs of literature departments in Europe, Israel, and the United States. In doing so, it promotes the integration of Jewish literatures into national philologies and the implementation of comparative, transnational approaches to the reading, teaching, and researching of literatures. Instead of a dichotomizing approach, Disseminating Jewish Literatures endorses an exhaustive, comprehensive conceptualization of the Jewish literary corpus across languages. Included in this volume are essays on literatures in Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, as well as essays reflecting the fields of Yiddish philology and Latin American studies. The volume is based on the papers presented at the Gentner Symposium funded by the Minerva Foundation, held at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2018.

Author : Gloria L. Cronin,Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140612

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Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature by Gloria L. Cronin,Alan L. Berger Pdf

Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015067446024

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Studies in American Jewish Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400829538

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Call It English by Hana Wirth-Nesher Pdf

Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. The first part of the book examines immigrant writing that enacts the drama of acquiring and relinquishing language in an America marked by language debates, local color writing, and nativism. The second part addresses multilingual writing by native-born authors in response to Jewish America's postwar social transformation and to the Holocaust. A profound and eloquently written exploration of bilingual aesthetics and cross-cultural translation, Call It English resounds also with pertinence to other minority and ethnic literatures in the United States.

Author : Jay L. Halio,Ben Siegel
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0874136113

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Daughters of Valor by Jay L. Halio,Ben Siegel Pdf

The essays in this book focus on a wide and representative variety of Jewish American women writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Erica Jong, Pauline Kael, Allegra Goodman, Norma Rosen, Adrienne Rich, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, and others. In every instance the contributors have tried to deal not only with the Jewish content of their work but also with its literary quality and other major themes.

Author : Norman Finkelstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791449831

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Not One of Them in Place by Norman Finkelstein Pdf

Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.