Add to ORKGNathanael West is perhaps the only Hebrew-American author to choose a nome de plume that encompasses both his creative self and his personal data. He was born in New York as Nathan Weinstein, son of two affluent parents hailing from Kovno, a Lithuanian village where German-speaking Jews enjoyed freedoms unknown in other parts of the Russian Empire. After the killing of Tsar Alexander and the subsequent wave of anti-Semitism, West’s relatives emigrated to New York where they decided for a radical Americanisation and kept themselves quite removed from the poorer Eastern European Jews. The author’s anxiety over assimilation led West to change his name and marked his attempt at removing his Jewish identity and blend with the WASP society surrou...
This paper examines West's satire and parody of the various schools of philosophic and artistic conc...
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This paper examines West's satire and parody of the various schools of philosophic and artistic conc...
In 2000, W.W. Norton and Company released a new English-language edition of Joseph Roth’s 1927 compi...
The second half of the twentieth century saw a flourishing of American Jewish fiction. Writers such ...
In 1930, Nathanael West was 26 years old and had just finished his first novel, The Dream Life of Ba...
Before we can judge a writer, we must tentatively decide upon the appropriate criteria by which to m...
Sin dall'inizio del XXI secole le letterature ebraiche in USA e Canada hanno subito una graduale tra...
Roth critics have long acknowledged that the American Trilogy elucidates the life of three men whose...
Abstract. Gerson Rosenzweig’s is far less visible in Jewish American literary studies, as well as in...
In the intimate circles of Hebrew and Yiddish culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
International audienceThis essay focuses on a very interesting Israeli novelist and poet of mizrahi ...
The following article presents and discusses the issue of a Jewish self-image emerging from the writ...
The publication of Meir ha-Levi Letteris’s translation-adaptation of Goethe’s Faust into Hebrew in 1...
The article shows examples of how Jewish-American writers deal with judaism in their works, using ir...
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Lu...
IN THE STORY BUCHMENDEL ( 1929), Stefan Zweig represents Jewish identityin Vienna as it is displac...
This paper examines West's satire and parody of the various schools of philosophic and artistic conc...
In 2000, W.W. Norton and Company released a new English-language edition of Joseph Roth’s 1927 compi...
The second half of the twentieth century saw a flourishing of American Jewish fiction. Writers such ...