Add to ORKGThe manner in which Jewish American authors interpret and portray cultural, historical and social events in the United Stated States society has received little attention in mainstream social scientific literature. This study examines changing patterns of Jewish-American cultural identity that are found in Jewish American short stories written between 1946 and 1995. It uses narrative, qualitative content analysis and a quantitative comparison of theme and symbol use in three time-periods within that fifty year span, time periods that were distinct in terms of the American Jewish community's relation to social changes occurring in Israel and the U.S. It notes an increasing emphasis on the Holocaust, victimization, and anti-Semitism in storie...
Recent histories of American Jews between 1945 and 1960 have emphasized their celebration of rising ...
The transformation of Jewish political identity over the three decades following the Second World Wa...
The five stories in this collection are a first attempt at redefining the literary self-image of Jew...
The manner in which Jewish American authors interpret and portray cultural, historical and social ev...
This dissertation explores the power of Jewish history and social studies textbooks as agents of soc...
Formation of American Jewish identity in the 1930s and 1940s was a multi-dimensional process. The Je...
The purpose of this project was to call into question a commonly held belief in mainstream academia ...
Efforts to define contemporary Jewish American identity often reveal more questions than concrete ar...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
In America, Jews had to learn how to explain and present themselves to non-Jews in order to survive ...
This dissertation focuses on the dynamic interplay between notions of Jewish identity and American u...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal...
This exploration of the shifting role of race in Jewish American literature begins in the immediate ...
Recent histories of American Jews between 1945 and 1960 have emphasized their celebration of rising ...
The transformation of Jewish political identity over the three decades following the Second World Wa...
The five stories in this collection are a first attempt at redefining the literary self-image of Jew...
The manner in which Jewish American authors interpret and portray cultural, historical and social ev...
This dissertation explores the power of Jewish history and social studies textbooks as agents of soc...
Formation of American Jewish identity in the 1930s and 1940s was a multi-dimensional process. The Je...
The purpose of this project was to call into question a commonly held belief in mainstream academia ...
Efforts to define contemporary Jewish American identity often reveal more questions than concrete ar...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
In America, Jews had to learn how to explain and present themselves to non-Jews in order to survive ...
This dissertation focuses on the dynamic interplay between notions of Jewish identity and American u...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal...
This exploration of the shifting role of race in Jewish American literature begins in the immediate ...
Recent histories of American Jews between 1945 and 1960 have emphasized their celebration of rising ...
The transformation of Jewish political identity over the three decades following the Second World Wa...
The five stories in this collection are a first attempt at redefining the literary self-image of Jew...