The Cambridge History Of Jewish American Literature

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108701337

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The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher Pdf

This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5217969970

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Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Heidi Schorr
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783487156453

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Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction by Heidi Schorr Pdf

Diese in englischer Sprache verfasste Dissertation fußt in den Feldern englische Literaturwissenschaft/Amerikanistik, Cultural Studies und Jewish American Studies. Sie untersucht die Repräsentation von Erinnerung in Werken von Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander und Nicole Krauss, Mitgliedern der sogenannten third generation jüdisch amerikanischer SchriftstellerInnen, welche um den Millenniumswechsel publizieren. Der Fokus liegt auf Werken von Nicole Krauss. Symbolische Charaktere und Objekte, welche in Verbindung zu Erinnerung stehen, werden herausgearbeitet und im Detail analysiert. This work is rooted in the fields of English Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Jewish American Studies. It examines memory representation in exemplary works published around the millennial change by third generation Jewish American writers Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander, and Nicole Krauss. The focus lies on the latter’s work. Symbolic characters and objects connected to memory are discerned and analyzed in detail.

Author : Jules Chametzky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393048098

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Jewish American Literature by Jules Chametzky Pdf

A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.

Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521899079

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The Cambridge History of the American Novel by Leonard Cassuto Pdf

An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.

Author : Benjamin Schreier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Victoria Aarons,Holli Levitsky
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438473192

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New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures by Victoria Aarons,Holli Levitsky Pdf

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them. What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving farther away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. Contributors address such genres as biography, the graphic novel, alternate history, midrash, poetry, and third-generation and hidden-child Holocaust narratives. Both canonical and contemporary authors are covered, including Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Anne Frank, Dara Horn, Joe Kupert, Philip Roth, and William Styron. “The range of critical approaches and authors examined makes this a valuable resource for scholars and teachers. Particularly in this troubling political moment, meditations on the new and continued relevance of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures for scholars, students, and the American public in general are invaluable.” — Sharon B. Oster, author of No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : E. Miller Budick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521635756

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Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation by E. Miller Budick Pdf

Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1108445004

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The New Jewish American Literary Studies by Victoria Aarons Pdf

"The newly defined field of Jewish American literary studies (and thus the title of this volume) responds to this changing demographic and dynamic and is perhaps best thought of as so named for the pragmatic purposes of bringing together a body of texts that might be called 'Jewish.' Such a defining principle of Jewish American literature, as Miron proposes, should not be understood as fixed"--

Author : Roberta Rosenberg,Rachel Rubinstein
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294461

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Teaching Jewish American Literature by Roberta Rosenberg,Rachel Rubinstein Pdf

A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States. This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege. Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

Author : Jonathan N. Barron
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535848299

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Naturalism and Jewish American Writers of the Great Migration by Jonathan N. Barron Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Naturalism and Jewish American Writers of the Great Migration is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.