The modern Jewish canon : a journey through language and culture / Ruth R. Wisse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wisse, Ruth R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish fiction--History and criticism.

Jewish fiction.

Literature, Modern--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Judaism and literature.

Canon (Literature).

Jews in literature.

Literature, Modern--Jewish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, [2000]

Summary:

The author examines Jewish language and culture as seen through Jewish literature and looks at the characteristics which make a book "Jewish."

Contents:

The comedy of endurance : Sholem Aleichem

The logic of language and the trials of the Jews : Franz Kafka and Yosef Haim Brenner

Literature of the Russian Revolution : from Isaac Babel to Vasily Grossman

Between the wars : the Singer family of Warsaw

A farewell to Poland : Jacob Glatstein and S.Y. Agnon

Shoah, Jhurbn, Holocaust : testimonies in native and adopted tongues

The Zionist fate in English hands : from George Eliot to A.M. Klein

The immigrant phase : American Jewish fiction from 1900 to 1950

Writing beyond alienation : Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth

A chapter in the making : Israeli Literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-384) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Scholarship, Winner, 2000

Other Format:

Online version: Wisse, Ruth R. Modern Jewish canon.

ISBN:

0684830752

9780684830759

OCLC:

43929939

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