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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822944703321

Autore

Berger Alan L. <1939->

Titolo

Crisis and covenant : the Holocaust in American Jewish fiction / / Alan L. Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1985

ISBN

0-7914-9644-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Disciplina

813/.54/09358

Soggetti

American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Covenants - Religious aspects - Judaism

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 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""