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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
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Group identity in literature.
- Israeli fiction--History and criticism.
- Israeli fiction.
- Jewish fiction--History and criticism.
- Jewish fiction.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Half Tittle Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity""; ""Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation""; ""The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer""; ""Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back""; ""Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self""; ""Magnified and Sanctified:Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature""
- ""Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture"" ""The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home""; ""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""; ""The Mrican American and Israeli ""Other"" in the Construction of Jewish American Identity""; ""Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language""; ""Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity""; ""German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked"" ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791490143
- 0791490149
- OCLC:
- 794701307
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