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Modern Jewish Women Writers in America / edited by E. Avery.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Theology.
- Literature.
- Judaism.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Gender Studies.
- Christian Theology.
- North American Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Christian Theology.
- Literature.
- Judaism.
- North American Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.
- Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Modern Jewish Women Writers in America: An Introduction; I: The Early Years-In Search of the Promised Land: 1910s-1950s; II: The Roads Diverge-Assimilation and Its Discontents: 1960s-1990s; III: The Covenant Confirmed? 1990s-2000; IV: Into the Twenty-First Century: The Pendulum Swings; Select Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611363048
- 9781281363046
- 1281363049
- 9780230604841
- 0230604846
- OCLC:
- 647663071
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