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Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

Product Description: Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and his conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century...read more

By Daniel Walden (editor)

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9780271059815 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, July 12, 2013, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and his conflicts between observance and acculturation.

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9780271059822 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, July 12, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation.

Ethical Diversions: The Post-holocaust Narratives Of Pynchon, Abish, Delillo, And Spiegelman

Product Description: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Katalin Orban

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9780415971676 | Routledge, January 31, 2005, cover price $147.00

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9780415867146 | Reissue edition (Routledge, October 31, 2013), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: First published in 2005.

Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

Product Description: In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism...read more

By Dean J. Franco

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9780801450877 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 5, 2012, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J.

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.

Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s

By Janet Burstein

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9780299212407 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 3, 2006, cover price $45.00

Connections And Collisions: Identities In Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Writing

Product Description: This anthology of scholarship on Jewish women writers is the first to focus on what it is to be a woman and a Jew and to explore how the two identities variously support and oppose each other. The collection is part of a growing scholarship that reflects the enormous output of writing by Jewish women since the second wave of the women's movement in the 1970s...read more

By Lois E. Rubin (editor)

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9780874138993 | Univ of Delaware Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This anthology of scholarship on Jewish women writers is the first to focus on what it is to be a woman and a Jew and to explore how the two identities variously support and oppose each other.

Conversations With Chaim Potok

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By Chaim Potok and Daniel Walden (editor)

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9781578063451 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 2001, cover price $50.00

Conversations With Chaim Potok

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By Daniel Walden (editor)

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9781578063468 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 2001, cover price $25.00

A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry

Product Description: The first major Jewish poet in America and a key figure of the Objectivist movement, Charles Reznikoff was a crucial link between the generation of Pound and Williams, and the more radical modernists who followed in their wake. A Menorah for Athena, the first extended treatment of Reznikoff's work, appears at a time of renewed interest in his contribution to American poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Fredman

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9780226261386 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: The first major Jewish poet in America and a key figure of the Objectivist movement, Charles Reznikoff was a crucial link between the generation of Pound and Williams, and the more radical modernists who followed in their wake.

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9780226261393 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The first major Jewish poet in America and a key figure of the Objectivist movement, Charles Reznikoff was a crucial link between the generation of Pound and Williams, and the more radical modernists who followed in their wake.

Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination

Product Description: Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma Rosen, and Marge Piercy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By S. Lillian Kremer

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9780803227439, titled "Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma Rosen, and Marge Piercy.

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9780803278004, titled "Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma Rosen, and Marge Piercy.

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.

Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion

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By Sanford Sternlicht

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9780313311819 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2000, cover price $52.00

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature

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By Rachel Rubin

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9780252025396 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $31.00

Facing Black and Jew: Literature As Public Space in Twentieth-Century America

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By Adam Zachary Newton

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9780521651066 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $134.99

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9780521658706 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $54.99

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

Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust

By Alan L. Berger

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9780791433577 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $52.50

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9780791433584 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $31.95

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.

Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women

Stories by and about Jewish mothers.

By Janet Burstein

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9780252022524 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $39.95

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9780252065552 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Stories by and about Jewish mothers.

Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers

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By Jay L. Halio (editor) and Ben Siegel (editor)

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9780874136111 | Univ of Delaware Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $43.50

9781611491760 | Univ of Delaware Pr, June 30, 1996, cover price $80.00

Strands of the Cable: The Place of the Past in Jewish American Women's Writing

Product Description: This study discusses a diverse selection of Jewish women writers from the immigrants to the most contemporary, all of whom are concerned with issues of identity and many of whom have been critically neglected until now. The various components of identity - woman, American, Jew - all make separate claims on consciousness...read more

By Ellen Serlen Uffen

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9780820417011, titled "Strands of the Cable: The Place of the Past in Jewish American Women's Writing" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This study discusses a diverse selection of Jewish women writers from the immigrants to the most contemporary, all of whom are concerned with issues of identity and many of whom have been critically neglected until now.

Jewish-American Fiction, 1917-1987

By Sanford Pinsker

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

In the Mainstream: Jewish Presence in Twentieth Century American Literature, 1950S-1980s

Product Description: In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Louis Harap

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9780313253874 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1987, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature.

Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s