02966nam 2200697Ia 450 991081136090332120200520144314.01-281-36304-997866113630480-230-60484-610.1057/9780230604841(CKB)1000000000342415(EBL)307984(OCoLC)647663071(SSID)ssj0001617540(PQKBManifestationID)16347550(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001617540(PQKBWorkID)14921842(PQKB)11612343(DE-He213)978-0-230-60484-1(MiAaPQ)EBC307984(EXLCZ)99100000000034241520070103d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModern Jewish women writers in America /edited with an introduction by Evelyn Avery1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53802-7 1-4039-7799-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Modern Jewish Women Writers in America: An Introduction; I: The Early Years-In Search of the Promised Land: 1910s-1950s; II: The Roads Diverge-Assimilation and Its Discontents: 1960s-1990s; III: The Covenant Confirmed? 1990s-2000; IV: Into the Twenty-First Century: The Pendulum Swings; Select Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers; Contributors; IndexThis collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismJewish womenUnited StatesIntellectual lifeJewsUnited StatesJewish women in literatureJews in literatureAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Jewish womenIntellectual life.JewsJewish women in literature.Jews in literature.810.9/8924Avery Evelyn Gross1940-1707297MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811360903321Modern Jewish women writers in America4193846UNINA