Crisis and Covenant [[electronic resource] ] : The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785642803321
• Autore: Berger Alan L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1985
• ISBN: 0-7914-9644-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Collana: SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Disciplina: 813/.54/09358
• Soggetti: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism - 20th century - United States; Judaism and literature - History - 20th century - United States; American fiction - History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - Intellectual life; Jews - Judaism - Religious aspects; Covenants; Jews in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Content ""; ""Introduction: Jewish Existence""; ""Covenant Transformations""; ""Covenant and Modernity""; ""The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis""; ""Literary Response to Covenant Crisis""; ""American Judaism and the Holocaust""; ""Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists""; ""Holocaust As Watershed""; ""Holocaust Problematics""; ""Theological Responses""; ""Theology and Literature""; ""Is the Holocaust Beyond ; Artistic Expression?""; ""Who Should Write of the Holocaust?""""Trivializing the Holocaust""; ""American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique""; ""The Role of the American Jewish Novelist""; ""Holocaust Responses I:Judaism As A Religious Value System""; ""The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry""; ""Hasidic Tales""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Arthur A. Cohen""; ""Cynthia Ozick""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Elie Wiesel""; ""Isaac Bashevis Singer""; ""Holocaust Responses II:Judaism As A Secular Value System""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Saul Bellow""; ""Susan F. Schaeffer""; ""Cynthia Ozick""""PRE-HOLOCAUST AMERICA: JEWISH EXISTENCE AND COVENANT DIMINISHMENT""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Robert Kotlowitz""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust Responses III:Symbolic Judaism""; ""Considering The Evidence""; ""Philip Roth""; ""Richard Elman""; ""Edward Lewis Wallant""; ""Norma Rosen""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust And Covenant""; ""The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism""; ""Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu""; ""Problems and Possibilities""; ""Back Matter ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""