The article shows examples of how Jewish-American writers deal with judaism in their works, using irony as the tool. The three authors discussed in the article all belong to twentieth century literature, though represent different generations. Despite diverse styles of writing they share not only skillful use of irony, but also of elements of magic realism. The examples discussed come from Bernard Malamud’s short story „Jewbird”, Nathan Englander’s short story „Peep Show” and Joseph Skibell’s novel A Curable Romantic. In Malamud’s story the main aim of irony is to indicate the tragic contempt of the assimilating American Jews towards their East European traditions, in Englander’s story the writer’s goal is to ridicule the religious instruct...
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The author of the article demonstrates the importance of irony for the prose writer, poet and playwr...
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The second half of the twentieth century saw a flourishing of American Jewish fiction. Writers such ...
Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant (1957) heralded a new era in the realm of Jewish-American fiction wr...
The article aims to show the different levels and varieties of irony found in “Bogowie”, a short sto...
The main character in this article is Hilary Nussbaum – a forgotten nineteenth-century Jewish reform...
Beginning from the premise that humor plays a prominent role in the construction of group and indivi...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
Jewish humor is a well-known, if ill-defined genre. The prevalence and success of Jewish comedians h...
In his debut novel Eteromanka (The Etheromaniac), Szymon Teżewski evokes the interwar period of his ...
Efforts to define contemporary Jewish American identity often reveal more questions than concrete ar...
Beginning from the premise that humor plays a prominent role in the construction of group and indivi...
Jews, Writing and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 considers the involvement of Jewi...
The author of the article demonstrates the importance of irony for the prose writer, poet and playwr...
This thesis examines three Jewish-American authors and how they portray the main female character in...
The article is devoted to the works of Chaim Nachman Bialik, a Jewish poet writing in Yiddish and He...
Besides being one of the major American authors of the postwar period, Bernard Malamud is also one o...
The second half of the twentieth century saw a flourishing of American Jewish fiction. Writers such ...
Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant (1957) heralded a new era in the realm of Jewish-American fiction wr...
The article aims to show the different levels and varieties of irony found in “Bogowie”, a short sto...
The main character in this article is Hilary Nussbaum – a forgotten nineteenth-century Jewish reform...