American Jewish fiction / Josh Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Joshua N.

Contributor:

Jewish Publication Society.

Series:

JPS guide.

JPS guide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Jewish authors--Stories, plots, etc.

American fiction.

American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader's dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to ot

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1Differences; 2As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story; 3Other Things Being Equal; 4Joseph Zalmonah; 5Yekl and The Imported Bridegroomand Other Stories of the New York Ghetto; 6Children of Men; 7Q.E.D.; 8Motl, the Cantor's Son; 9The Tether; 10The Rise of David Levinsky; 11The Chosen People; 12Fanny Herself; 13Salome of the Tenements; 14Haunch, Paunch and Jowl; 15Bread Givers; 16Amerika; 17The Island Within; 18Arnold Levenberg; 19Singermann; 20Bottom Dogs; 21 Jews without Money; 22By the Waters of Manhattan

23Thicker Than Water24Miss Lonelyhearts andThe Day of the Locust; 25Call It Sleep; 26Summer in Williamsburg,Homage to Blenholt, and Low Company; 27The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N; 28I Can Get It for You Wholesale; 29Tomorrow's Bread; 30As a Driven Leaf; 31What Makes Sammy Run?; 32Jewish Cowboy [Der Yidisher Kauboy]; 33The Family Carnovsky; 34Focus; 35Passage from Home; 36Wasteland; 37East River; 38The Amboy Dukes; 39My Glorious Brothers; 40The Naked and the Dead; 41The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories; 42A Stone for Danny Fisher; 43The Adventures of Augie March

44Blessed Is the Land45Marjorie Morningstar; 46Compulsion; 47Remember Me to God; 48The Assistant; 49Shadows on the Hudson; 50Exodus; 51Goodbye, Columbus and Five Stories; 52The Pawnbroker; 53Tell Me a Riddle; 54Stern; 55Herzog; 56To an Early Grave; 57Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late; 58Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers; 59The Last Jew in America; 60Green: A Novella and Eight Stories; 61Tsemakh Atlas/The Yeshiva; 62Waiting for the News; 63Portnoy's Complaint; 64Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; 65Bech, a Book; 66The Book of Daniel; 67Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse

68Jacob's Son69The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories; 70Edwin Mullhouse: The Life andDeath of an American Writer,1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright; 71My Name Is Asher Lev; 72In the Days of Simon Stern; 73Fear of Flying; 74A Star in the Family; 75My Own Ground; 76Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventuresof Marshall Pearl, a Foundling; 77In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories; 78A Weave of Women; 79A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories; 80Good as Gold; 81O My America!; 82The Mind-Body Problem; 83Hungry Hearts; 84Disturbances in the Field; 85Heartburn; 86Mainland

87Her First American88Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven; 89The Ritual Bath; 90The Shawl; 91The Great Letter E; 92He, She, and It; 93Operation Shylock: A Confession; 94The Prince of West End Avenue; 95The Collected Stories; 96Mr. Vertigo; 97A Disturbance in One Place; 98The Romance Reader; 99While the Messiah Tarries; 100Tales Out of School; 101Mona in the Promised Land; 102The Complete Stories; 103The Puttermesser Papers; 104American Pastoral; 105Like Never Before; 106Paradise, New York; 107The Jew of New York; 108For the Relief of Unbearable Urges; 109The Ladies Auxiliary

110Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-176) indexes.

ISBN:

9781283810616

1283810611

9780827610026

0827610025

OCLC:

794700951