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The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction

By Victoria Aarons (editor), Avinoam J. Patt (editor) and Mark Shechner (editor)

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9780814340554 | Wayne State Univ Pr, January 5, 2015, cover price $35.99

Memory and Neighborhood: Poles and Poland in Jewish American Fiction After World War Two

Product Description: The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II. The analysis of seventy novels by Jewish-American writers of several generations reveals portrayals of Poles as secondary or unimportant characters, either in the Old World or in the new American environment...read more

By Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-pedich

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9783631639092 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 26, 2013, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: The book is a study of references to Poles, Poland and Polishness in Jewish-American fiction created after World War II.

Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative

By Derek Parker Royal (editor)

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9781557535849 | Purdue Univ Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $45.00

The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

Product Description: Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal...read more

By Sam B. Girgus

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9780807815779 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal.

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9780807896709 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal.

Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld

By Pia Masiero

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9781604977547 | Cambria Pr, March 28, 2011, cover price $109.99

Philip Roth's Postmodern American Romance: Critical Essays on Selected Works

By Jane Statlander

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9781433105982 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2010, cover price $75.95

Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination

Product Description: In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian differently than their white counterparts, as they found in this figure a mirror for their own anxieties about tribal and national belonging...read more

By Rachel Rubinstein

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9780814334348 | Wayne State Univ Pr, March 15, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian.

Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture

Product Description: In books, television programs, and films, Jewish men are often depicted as erudite, comedic, malleable, and non-threateningâsomewhere between Clark Kent and the early Woody Allen. Yet as Warren Rosenberg shows in this illuminating study, this widespread cultural image is not only overly simplistic, it is at odds with a legacy of Jewish male violence that goes back to the first chapters of Genesis when Cain slew Abel...read more

By Warren Rosenberg

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9781558493032 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In books, television programs, and films, Jewish men are often depicted as erudite, comedic, malleable, and non-threatening -- somewhere between Clark Kent and the early Woody Allen.

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9781558497900 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In books, television programs, and films, Jewish men are often depicted as erudite, comedic, malleable, and non-threateningâsomewhere between Clark Kent and the early Woody Allen.

American Jewish Fiction: JPS Guide

Product Description: This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction readerâs dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals...read more

By Josh Lambert

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9780827608832 | 1 edition (Jewish Pubn Society, January 1, 2009), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction readerâs dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction.

American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction

Product Description: Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish American fiction and places it squarely within the larger context of American literature...read more

By Ezra Cappell

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9780791471234 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish American fiction and places it squarely within the larger context of American literature.

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9780791471241 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

The Golem in Jewish American Literature: Risks and Responsibilities in the Fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern

Product Description: The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon. Nicola Morris sees this clay humanoid, created in Jewish legend for practical and spiritual purposes, as a metaphor for power and powerlessness and for the complexities and responsibilities surrounding the act of creation...read more

By Nicola Morris

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9780820463841 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 2007, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon.

The Jewish American Novel

Product Description: Philippe Codde provides a comparative cultural analysis of the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in the postwar United States by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related American cultural movements: the popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary existentialism, the increasing visibility of the Holocaust in US-American life, and the advent of radical theology...read more

By Philippe Codde

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9781557534378 | Purdue Univ Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Philippe Codde provides a comparative cultural analysis of the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in the postwar United States by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related American cultural movements: the popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary existentialism, the increasing visibility of the Holocaust in US-American life, and the advent of radical theology.

Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism & The Bildungsroman In African American & Jewish American Fiction

By Martin Japtok

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9780877459231 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $33.00

What Happened To Abraham?: Reinventing The Covenant In American Jewish Fiction

Product Description: What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America...read more

By Victoria Aarons

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9780874139013 | Univ of Delaware Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: What Happened to Abraham?

Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories

Product Description: In this book, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and religious identity. Roth frames his study with the concept of âkosher hybridityâ to look at the complex process of mediation between Jewish and American culture in which Jewish writers voice the desire to be both different from and yet the same as other Americans...read more

By Laurence Roth

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9780813533681 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In this volume, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and religious identity.

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9780813533698 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this book, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and religious identity.

Cultural Dialectic: Ludwig Lewisohn and Cynthia Ozick

Product Description: This book defines and analyzes the elusive concept of cultural dialectic, as it ambiguously manifests itself in selected works of Ludwig Lewisohn and Cynthia Ozick. Taken separately, the terms Â«culturalÂ» and Â«dialecticÂ» each open onto a vast panorama of different - and sometimes competing - significances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jane Statlander

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9780820458496 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $88.95 | About this edition: This book defines and analyzes the elusive concept of cultural dialectic, as it ambiguously manifests itself in selected works of Ludwig Lewisohn and Cynthia Ozick.

Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Transatlantic Connections

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By David Brauner

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9780333740354 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 5, 2001, cover price $185.00

Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature

Product Description: By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Emily Miller Budick (editor)

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9780791450673 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $71.50 | About this edition: By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities.

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9780791450680 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities.

Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: The Return of the Exiled

Product Description: Exploring the ambivalent relationship between multiculturalists and contemporary Jewish American literature, this text advocates a more inclusive and intellectually valid form than is currently practiced. It includes an historical overview of Jewish American fiction. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Andrew Furman

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9780815628439 | Syracuse Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $39.95

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9780815628460 | Syracuse Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Exploring the ambivalent relationship between multiculturalists and contemporary Jewish American literature, this text advocates a more inclusive and intellectually valid form than is currently practiced.

Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation

Product Description: In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s. This study records conversations both explicit, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Emily Miller Budick

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9780521631945 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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9780521635752 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Jewish Women Fiction Writers

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By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791044933 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.95

A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory

By Norman Ravvin

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9780773516649 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $110.00

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9780773516656 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $32.95

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995

Product Description: Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one of more of their works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Andrew Furman

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9780791432518 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew.

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9780791432525 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew.

A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction

Product Description: Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.

By Victoria Aarons

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9780820317731 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.

Jewish-American Fiction, 1917-1987

By Sanford Pinsker

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9780805739596 | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $28.95

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