Add to ORKGX unusually rich in books of overt Jewish interest1 and concern. The scope of these books was remarkably broad, ranging from philosophy to Jewish cookery. By and large, writers seemed during this period to deal with the Jew as a historical and cultural phenomenon rather than as a social or political problem, as a unique being rather than as the archetype of the victims of persecution or prejudice. The tone of the period was, in general, more contemplative than polemical. Nevertheless, easy stereotypes of the Jew continued to furnish a substitute for creative interpretation to less gifted novelists who utilized the Jew as projections of their own inner difficulties. There were also more books of sentimental and nostalgic reminiscence, more p...
Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority ...
This dissertation examines aspects of the Jewish encounter with modern discourses of subjectivity. T...
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The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used ima...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewi...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewis...
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored question...
Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps be...
Irving Howe, in the introduction to the 1977 collection, Jewish-American Stories, poses an unsettled...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority ...
This dissertation examines aspects of the Jewish encounter with modern discourses of subjectivity. T...
In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper m...
This exploration of the shifting role of race in Jewish American literature begins in the immediate ...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used ima...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewi...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewis...
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored question...
Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps be...
Irving Howe, in the introduction to the 1977 collection, Jewish-American Stories, poses an unsettled...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minim...
Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority ...
This dissertation examines aspects of the Jewish encounter with modern discourses of subjectivity. T...
In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper m...