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Jewish gangsters of modern literature

Title: Jewish gangsters of modern literature / Rachel Rubin.
Author: Rubin, Rachel.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

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Description

xii, 189 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction: reading, writing, and the rackets -- Imagine you are a tiger: a new folk hero in Babel's Odessa tales -- A sordid generation: plundering ethnic culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch paunch and jowl -- A gang of little Yids: savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without money -- Business is business: the death of the gangster in Daniel Fuchs's novels of the 1930s -- Conclusion: the gangster's funeral -- Notes -- References cited -- Index.

Call Number

*PYV 00-5582

ISBN

0252025393 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99006761

OCLC

41951128

Author

Rubin, Rachel.

Title

Jewish gangsters of modern literature / Rachel Rubin.

Imprint

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.

Research Call Number

*PYV 00-5582

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