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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462126503321

Titolo

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Emily Miller Budick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2001

ISBN

0-7914-9014-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BudickE. Miller

Disciplina

892.4/360935203924

Soggetti

American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Group identity in literature

Israeli fiction - History and criticism

Jewish fiction - History and criticism

Jews in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""