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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature : Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth
- Title
- Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature : Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth / Ranen Omer-Sherman.
- Author
- Omer-Sherman, Ranen.
- Publication
- Hanover : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 341 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
- Subjects
- Syrkin, Marie, 1899-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 > Criticism and interpretation
- Zionism in literature
- Jewish diaspora in literature
- Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887 > Criticism and interpretation
- Jewish literature > History and criticism
- Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.
- Contents
- "Thy people are my people": Emma Lazarus, Zion, and Jewish modernity in the 1880s -- "It will not be the saving remnant": Marie Syrkin and post-Holocaust politics of Jewish American identity -- Convivencia, hybridity, and the Jewish urban modernist -- "Palestine was a halting place, one of many": Diasporism in Charles Reznikoff's Nine Plays and beyond -- "No coherence": Philip Roth's lamentations for diaspora -- "A stranger in the house": assimilation, madness, and passing in Roth's figure of the pariah Jew in Sabbath's Theater (1995), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000).
- Call Number
- *PZX 02-3888
- ISBN
- 1584652020 (pbk.)
- 1584652012 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2001005972
- OCLC
- 48100715
- Author
- Omer-Sherman, Ranen.
- Title
- Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature : Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth / Ranen Omer-Sherman.
- Imprint
- Hanover : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, c2002.
- Series
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PZX 02-3888