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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature

This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the Holocaust.

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  • "Companion to Jewish American literature"
  • "Jewish American Literature"@en
  • "Jewish American Literature"
  • "Companion to Jewish American Literature"
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  • "This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures explores key dimensions of Jewish American literature and culture. Jewish Americans have produced some of the most important and versatile writing in the US this century. This Companion addresses the distinctive Jewish American contribution to American literary criticism, poetry and popular culture, establishing the broadest possible context for the discussion of Jewish American identity as its intersects with the corpus of American literature. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike."
  • "This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the Holocaust."@en
  • "This collection discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, & ethics, & places it in the contexts of both Jewish & American writing. It covers writers from the 1700s to contemporaries such as Saul Bellow & Philip Roth."
  • "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."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Handboeken (vorm)"
  • "Llibres electrònics"
  • "Online-Publikation"@en
  • "Literatura amerykańska"
  • "Literatura żydowska"
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"@en
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
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  • "The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature = 美国犹太文学"
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