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Contemporary Jewish-American novelists : a bio-critical sourcebook / edited by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub ; with a foreword by Daniel Walden ; Emmanuel S. Nelson, advisory editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shatzky, Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Jewish authors--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Jewish authors--Dictionaries.
- American fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
- American fiction--20th century--Dictionaries.
- Jews in literature--Dictionaries.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (537 p.)
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have significantly contributed to the world of literature. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 75 Jewish-American novelists whose major works were largely written after World War II. Included are entries for both well-known and relatively obscure novelists, many of whom are just becoming established as significant literary figures. While the volume profiles major canonical figures such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, it also aims to be more inclusive than other works on contemporary Jewish-
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Walter Abish; Max Apple; Paul Auster; Jonathan Baumbach; Saul Bellow; Melvin Bukiet; Arthur Allen Cohen; E. L. Doctorow; Stanley Elkin; Richard Elman; Leslie Epstein; Irvin Faust; Bruce Jay Friedman; Sanford Friedman; Thomas Friedmann; Daniel Fuchs; Merrill Joan Gerber; Herbert Gold; Gloria Goldreich; Paul Goodman; Gerald Green; Joseph Heller; Mark Helprin; Carolivia Herron; Laura Z. Hobson; Judith Katz; Julius Lester; Meyer Levin; Phillip Lopate; Norman Mailer; Bernard Malamud; Wallace Markfield; Daphne Merkin
- Faye Stollman MoskowitzJay Neugeboren; Hugh Nissenson; Tillie Olsen; Cynthia Ozick; Grace Paley; Marge Piercy; Chaim Potok; Lev Raphael; Tova Reich; Mordecai Richler; Lucy (Gabrielle) Rosenthal; Henry Roth; Philip Roth; Budd Schulberg; Alix Kates Shulman; Roberta Silman; Jo Sinclair; David Slavitt; Susan Sontag; Art Spiegelman; Gertrude Stein; Steve Stern; Barry Targan; Meredith Tax; Lionel Trilling; Leon Uris; Edward Lewis Wallant; Jerome Weidman; Herman Wouk; Appendix; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-475) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400631344
- 9786612565663
- 9781282565661
- 1282565664
- 9781429473385
- 142947338X
- 9780313033292
- 0313033293
- OCLC:
- 646068833
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