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Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature / edited by Emily Miller Budick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israeli fiction--History and criticism.
- Israeli fiction.
- American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Jewish authors.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jewish fiction--History and criticism.
- Jewish fiction.
- Jews in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 284 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity / Eliezer Schweid 23
- Chapter 2. Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation / A. B. Yehoshua 45
- Chapter 3. The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer / Morris Dickstein 57
- Chapter 4. Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back / H. M. Daleski 79
- Chapter 5. Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self / Gershon Shaked 95
- Chapter 6. Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher 115
- Chapter 7. Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture / David G. Roskies 131
- Chapter 8. The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home / Ruth Wisse 147
- Chapter 9. The Conversion of the Jews and Other Narratives of Self-Definition: Notes Toward the Writing of Jewish American Literary History; or, Adventures in Hebrew School / Michael P. Kramer 177
- Chapter 10. The African American and Israeli "Other" in the Construction of Jewish American Identity / Emily Miller Budick 197
- Chapter 11. Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language / Yitzhak Laor 213
- Chapter 12. Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity / Nili Rachel Scharf Gold 235
- Chapter 13. German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked / Wolfgang Iser 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791450678
- 0791450686
- OCLC:
- 45207862
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