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Jewish in America

Title
Jewish in America / edited by Sara Blair, Jonathan Freedman.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

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TextUse in library *PAX 04-4083Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Additional Authors
  • Blair, Sara.
  • Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-
Description
vi, 277 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > Jewish authors
  • American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
  • Jews > United States > Literary collections
  • Jews > United States > Intellectual life
  • Judaism and literature > United States
  • Judaism > Literary collections
  • Judaism in literature
  • Jews in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Merchants of Venice / Leonard Barkan -- The Jew's house / Louis Simpson -- Sephardic culture and me / Richard Kostelanetz -- If only: finding America in Hasidism / Pearl Abraham -- The Lower East Side union of all the shuls I go to / Jonathan Boyarin -- Of what language, pray, is 'the American mind'? / Martha Banta -- A eulogy / Stephen Greenblatt -- Valley boys / Gregory Orfalea -- My Jewish perversion / Bonnie Friedman -- Don Rickles and death / John Limon -- The material / Robert Pinsky -- Eccentric fractals (Isaiah, math and snow) / Jacqueline Osherow -- The new world / Chana Bloch -- 'And the darkness he called night' / Chana Bloch -- Kol Nidrei: September 2001 / Grace Schulman -- The messenger / Daniel Mark Epstein -- Yom Hashoah in Florida / Rick Hilles -- The celebrity / Laurence Goldstein -- The lower case Jew / Rodger Kamenetz -- Jewish America through the lens / Sara Blair -- Intifada diptych / Alisa Solomon -- Israel and America: revisioning history / Shira Wolosky -- Playing the angles / Sharon Pomerantz -- Tea / Nancy Reisman -- Is there a Jewish text in this class?: Jewish modernism in the multicultural academy / Julian Levinson -- 'Who's Jewish?': some Asian-American writers and the Jewish-American literary canon / Jonathan Freedman -- Why American has not seemed like exile / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Sign under test / Charles Bernstein.
Call Number
*PAX 04-4083
ISBN
  • 0472098802 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472068806 (pbk : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004053674
OCLC
55678917
Title
Jewish in America / edited by Sara Blair, Jonathan Freedman.
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
Ania R. Hoptman Memorial Fund for Jewish Literature.
Added Author
Blair, Sara.
Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-
Research Call Number
*PAX 04-4083
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