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The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America

From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition. (view table of contents)

By Jonathan Freedman

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9780195131574 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 24, 2000, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other.

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9780195151992 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 28, 2002, cover price $56.00

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth

Product Description: This interdisciplinary study explores the evolving representations of diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American writing from 1880 to the late 20th century. Beginning with the often neglected proto-Zionist verse of Emma Lazarus, through the urban and Holocaust-inflected lyrics of Marie Syrkin and Charles Reznikoff, to the post-assimilationist novels of Philip Roth in the 1990s, Ranen Omer-Sherman analyzes literary responses to the competing claims on the self made by this dual allegiance...read more

By Ranen Omer-Sherman

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9781584652014 | Brandeis Univ, March 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary study explores the evolving representations of diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American writing from 1880 to the late 20th century.

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9781584652021, titled "Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth" | Brandeis Univ, March 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary study explores the evolving representations of diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American writing from 1880 to the late 20th century.

In Search of American Jewish Culture

Product Description: In drama and in musical comedy, in popular song and in symphonic music, in movies and in literature, Jews have contributed to American culture in the 20th century to a degree out of all proportion to their numbers. But does this vast creative output coalesce into something identifiable as an American Jewish culture? Stephen J...read more

By Stephen J. Whitfield

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9780874517545 | Brandeis Univ, August 1, 1999, cover price $40.00

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9781584651710 | Brandeis Univ, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In drama and in musical comedy, in popular song and in symphonic music, in movies and in literature, Jews have contributed to American culture in the 20th century to a degree out of all proportion to their numbers.

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.

Jewish Writers, Irish Writers: Selected Essays on the Love of Words

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By Maurice Wohlgelernter

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9780765800114 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $40.95

Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature

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By Ethan Goffman

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9780791446775 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $66.50

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9780791446782 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Book by Goffman, Ethan

The Literary Imagination of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women: An Assessment of a Writing Community

By Alyse Fisher Roller

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9780786407217 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 1999, cover price $32.00

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

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 Writers and Intellectual Life in America

By D. Venkateswarlu

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9788185218670 | Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division, November 1, 1992, cover price $30.00

Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers

Product Description: "Taking into account their multiple loyalties, this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their achievements. With a comprehensive bibliography, notes, and an index, this work is essential for scholars, women's and Jewish studies departments, and literary and historical studies...read more

By Diane Marilyn Lichtenstein

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9780253333469 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Taking into account their multiple loyalties, this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their achievements.

9789990247763 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $7.47

The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature

By Norman Finkelstein

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9780791410899 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $53.50

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9780791410905 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $31.95

The Schlemiel As Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction

Product Description: The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through his appearance in the nineteenth-century literature of Mendele Mocher Seforim and Sholom Aleichem to his final development as the beautiful loser in the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Woody Allen...read more

By Sanford Pinsker

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9780809315819 | Rev enl su edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.

The Conversion of the Jews and Other Essays

By Mark Shechner

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9780312046194 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1991, cover price $45.00

The Monological Jew: A Literary Study

By L. S. Dembo

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9780299116804 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $32.50

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9780299116842 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $13.50

Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources

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By Gene Brown (editor), Jules Chametzky (editor), Lewis Fried (editor) and Louis Harap (editor)

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9780313245930 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 26, 1988, cover price $75.00

Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World

Traces the education and development of a group of New York City area intellectuals, and examines the intellectual's role in society

By Alexander Bloom

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9780195036626 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 17, 1986, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Traces the education and development of a group of New York City area intellectuals, and examines the intellectual's role in society

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9780195051773 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 17, 1987), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Traces the education and development of a group of New York City area intellectuals, and examines the intellectual's role in society

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

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By Louis Harap

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9780313253867 | Praeger Pub Text, March 18, 1987, cover price $124.00

After the Revolution: Studies in the Contemporary Jewish American Imagination

By Mark Shechner

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9780253304506 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $11.95

Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers

By Jules Chametzky

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9780870235405 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $20.95

Studies in American Jewish Literature: A Mosaic of Jewish Writers

By Daniel Walden

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9780873959278 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1982, cover price $12.95

City Scriptures

Product Description: This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S...read more

By Murray Baumgarten

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9780674132788 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel.

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