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What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aarons, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Jewish authors.
- Jews--United States--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Covenants--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Covenants.
- Judaism and literature--United States.
- Judaism and literature.
- Judaism in literature.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2005]
- Contents:
- The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway?
- Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant
- Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness
- Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem"
- The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz
- The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874139015
- OCLC:
- 55948124
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