The rise of American Jewish literature, an anthology of selections from the major novels. / Edited by Charles Angoff and Meyer Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angoff, Charles, 1902-1979, compiler.

Contributor:

Levin, Meyer, 1905-1981, compiler.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Jewish authors.

American fiction.

Jews--United States--Fiction.

Jews.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

988. pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, [1970]

Contents:

The rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan

Journey to the Dawn by Charles Angoff

Call is Sleep by Henry Roth

The Island Within by Ludwig Lewisohn

I can get it for you Wholesale by Jerome Weidman

What makes Sammy run? by Budd Schulber

Summer in Williamsburg by Daniel Fuchs

The Old Bunch by Meyer Levin

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

Asphalt and Desire by Frederic Morton

Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk

Eli, the Fanatic by Philip Roth

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green

Remember me to God by Myron S. Kaufmann

The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant

Fathers by Herbert Gold

Stern by Bruce Jay Friedman

To an Early Grave by Wallace Markfield

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

Notes:

"Here, at long last, is the very first anthology of selections from the important novels of 22 major Jewish writers in the United States."--Dust jacket.

"Designed by Eve Metz."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autographs of "Chaim & Adena Potok".

Potok Collection copy is "First Printing".

ISBN:

067120369X

OCLC:

68079