Author: Jonathan N. BarronPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650430
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
Jewish American Poetry
Author: Jonathan N. BarronPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650430
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
Author: Deborah AgerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441183043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry collects more than 200 poems by over 100 poets to celebrate contemporary writers, born after World War II, who write about Jewish themes. In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish poet. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, included are poems by, among others, Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Ed Hirsch, David Lehman, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Judith Skillman, Jacqueline Osherow, Alan Shapiro, Ira Sadoff, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, Philip Schultz, and Jane Shore.
Jewish American Literature
Author: Jules ChametzkyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393048094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Singing in a Strange Land
Author: Maeera ShreiberPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804734295
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Singing in a Strange Land explores how the history and cultural conditions of Jewish poetry and poetic production—from the destruction of the Second Temple and Babylonian exile to medieval Spain, the Nazi Holocaust, the contemporary Gulf War, and the second Palestinian intifada—have shaped "Jewish American poetry"; and, through analyses of important poems by significant Jewish American poets, how they shape Jewish American cultural identity.
Telling and Remembering
Author: Steven Joel RubinPublisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A collection of "more than two hundred poems by American Jewish poets on Jewish subjects and themes."--Jacket.
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Author: Andrew FurmanPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438403518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books 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 or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
Author: Hana Wirth-NesherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316395340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.
American Yiddish Poetry
Author: Benjamin HarshavPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804751704
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.
Jewish American Writing and World Literature
Author: Saul Noam ZarittPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198863713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book explores how Jewish American writers like Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley think of themselves as world writers, and the successes and failures that come with this role.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
Author: Hana Wirth-NesherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521796996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
