This thesis brings together literary texts that portray Hasidic Judaism in Jewish-American literature, predominantly of the 20th and 21st centuries. Although other scholars may have studied Rabbi Nachman, I.B. Singer, Chaim Potok and Pearl Abraham individually, no one has combined their works and examined the depiction of Hasidism through the codes and conventions of different literary genres. Additionally, my research on Judy Brown and Frieda Vizel raises urgent questions about the gendered foundations of Hasidism that are largely elided in the earlier texts. The thesis demonstrates how each text has engaged with Hasidic identity, thought, customs, laws, values and communities in its own particular way, creating tensions between the differ...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
In my thesis, the category Jewish American literature pinpoints a historical and cultural moment s...
Although much critical attention has been devoted to American-Jewish literature in the last twenty-f...
This thesis examines three Jewish-American authors and how they portray the main female character in...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewi...
Depictions of Hasidim changed drastically around the turn of the century in Yiddish literature. This...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewis...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
The manner in which Jewish American authors interpret and portray cultural, historical and social ev...
"Jewish-American Literature As A Window To Jewish Identity" is an essay which explains that "Jewish-...
American Hebrew literature, a corpus written primarily by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the ...
This dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists who utilize messainism in their...
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored question...
This thesis examines the inter-relationship between the Haskalah and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
In my thesis, the category Jewish American literature pinpoints a historical and cultural moment s...
Although much critical attention has been devoted to American-Jewish literature in the last twenty-f...
This thesis examines three Jewish-American authors and how they portray the main female character in...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewi...
Depictions of Hasidim changed drastically around the turn of the century in Yiddish literature. This...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewis...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
The manner in which Jewish American authors interpret and portray cultural, historical and social ev...
"Jewish-American Literature As A Window To Jewish Identity" is an essay which explains that "Jewish-...
American Hebrew literature, a corpus written primarily by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the ...
This dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists who utilize messainism in their...
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored question...
This thesis examines the inter-relationship between the Haskalah and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe...
In recent years scholars and critics of Jewish writing have begun referring to a "canon" of Jewish A...
In my thesis, the category Jewish American literature pinpoints a historical and cultural moment s...
Although much critical attention has been devoted to American-Jewish literature in the last twenty-f...