Jewish writers of the twentieth century / editor, Sorrel Kerbel ; assistant editors, Muriel Emanuel, Laura Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerbel, Sorrel.

Emanuel, Muriel.

Phillips, Laura.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--Bio-bibliography.

Jewish literature.

Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Bio-bibliography.

Biographies.

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 695 pages)

Other Title:

Jewish writers of the 20th century

Place of Publication:

New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading. f selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Contents:

Chapter American-Jewish Literature

chapter An-ski

chapter Auster, Paul

chapter Baron, (Joseph) Alexander

chapter Bellow, Saul

chapter Brenner, Yosef Hayyim

chapter Brodsky, Joseph

chapter Brookner, Anita

chapter Cahan, Abraham

chapter Clouts, Sydney

chapter Cohen, Albert

chapter Durlacher, G.L.

chapter Farhi, Moris (Musa)

chapter Gebirtig, Mordkhe

chapter Gilboa, Amir

chapter Ginsberg, Allen

chapter Glatshteyn, Yankev (Jacob Glatstein)

chapter Gordin, Yankev

chapter Greenberg, Uri Zvi ("Tur Malka")

chapter Gur, Batya

chapter Guri, Haim

chapter Halter, Marek

chapter Hazaz, Hayim ("H. Zevi")

chapter Heym, Stefan

chapter Ionesco, Eugène

chapter Jacobson, Dan

chapter Josipovici, Gabriel

chapter Kaniuk, Yoram

chapter Katz, Steve

chapter Katzir, Yehudit (Judith)

chapter Kolmar, Gertrud

chapter Kosinski, Jerzy

chapter Kraus, Karl

chapter Kulbak, Moyshe

chapter Langer, Jiří

chapter Liberman, Serge

chapter Mani Leyb (Leib)

chapter Markish, Perets

chapter Matalon, Ronit

chapter Mendele Moykher Sforim

chapter Opatoshu, Joseph (Yoysef)

chapter Oppen, George

chapter Perutz, Leo

chapter Piercy, Marge

chapter Potok, Chaim

chapter Preil, Gabriel Yehoshua

chapter Pressburger, Giorgio

chapter Rosenfeld, Isaac

chapter Roth, Philip

chapter Shapiro, Karl

chapter Shpigl, Yeshayohu (Shaye) (Isaiah Spiegel)

chapter Shrayer-Petrov, David

chapter Silkin, Jon

chapter Singer, Isaac Bashevis

chapter Stein, Gertrude

chapter Viertel, Berthold

chapter Vigée, Claude

chapter Vogel, David

chapter Weissbort, Daniel

chapter Wesker, Arnold

chapter West, Nathanael

chapter Wiseman, Adele

chapter TITLE INDEX

chapter NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Jewish writers of the twentieth century.

ISBN:

0203010000

9780203010006

9781579583132

157958313X

Publisher Number:

99990107629

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Restricted for use by site license.