عنوان

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature /

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0791450678

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0791450686 (pbk.)

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9780791450673

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9780791450680 (pbk.)

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b414807

Title Proper

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Emily Miller Budick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 284 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

The construction and deconstruction of Jewish Zionist identity / Eliezer Schweid -- Hebrew literature and Dor Hamedinah : portrait of a literary generation / A.B. Yehoshua -- The complex fate of the Jewish American writer / Morris Dickstein -- Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and back / H.M. Daleski -- Contemporary Israeli literature and the subject of fiction : from nationhood to the self / Gershon Shaked -- Magnified and sanctified : liturgy in contemporary Jewish American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Jazz and Jewspeech : the anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish culture / David G. Roskies -- The Yiddish and the Hebrew writers head for home / Ruth Wiss -- 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 / Michael P. Kramer -- The African American and Israeli "other" in the construction of Jewish American identity / Emily Miller Budick -- Schizolingua : or, How many years can modern Hebrew remain modern? On the ideological dictates of the Hebrew language / Yitzhak Laor -- Betrayal of the mother tongue in the creation of national identity / Nili Rachel Scharf Gold -- German Jewish writers during the decline of the Hapsburg monarchy : assessing the assessment of Gershon Shaked / Wolfgang Iser.

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Text of Note

This book examines how Israeli and American Jewish literatures share commonalities and affinities.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

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

Group identity in literature.

Israeli fiction-- History and criticism.

Jewish fiction-- History and criticism.

Jews in literature.

Jews-- Israel-- Intellectual life.

Jews-- United States-- Intellectual life.

Judaism and literature.

Class number

Book number

Budick, E. Miller.

Date of Transaction

20140220051227.0

Electronic name

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