Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Jewish writing in Britain and Ireland :an anthology / edited by Bryan Cheyette.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Cheyette, Bryan.

Description

lxxi, 336 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish writing in the contemporary world

Uniform Title

Jewish writing in the contemporary world.

Subjects

• English literature > Jewish authors
• Jews > Great Britain > Literary collections
• English literature > Irish authors
• Jews > Ireland > Literary collections
• English literature > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. lxiv-lxxi).

Contents

• A Birthday in London (1963) / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Excerpt from The Elected Member (1969) / Bernice Rubens -- Fanya (1972) / Emanuel Litvinoff -- Excerpt from Little Eden: A Child at War (1978) / Eva Figes -- Another Survivor (1978) / Ruth Fainlight -- A Wizard's Robe Patterned with Stars and Moons (1994) -- Wingate Football Club (1979) / Clive Sinclair -- Bedbugs (1982) -- Excerpt from The Border (1984): Inge Wendler's Diary / Elaine Feinstein -- Excerpt from Peeping Tom (1984): Prologue / Howard Jacobson -- Excerpt from The Therapy of Avram Blok (1985) / Simon Louvish -- Excerpt from The Days of Miracles and Wonders (1997): Guilty as Charged -- Return to Sender (1986) / Michelene Wandor -- Song of the Jewish Princess (1989) -- Excerpt from The Latecomers (1988) / Anita Brookner -- Excerpt from Night Train to Mother (1989): 'Ruth 1984' / Ronit Lentin -- Excerpt from The Dwarfs (1990) / Harold Pinter -- A Conversation Piece (1991) / George Steiner --
• Excerpt from The God-Fearer (1992) / Dan Jacobson -- Excerpt from In a Hotel Garden (1993) / Gabriel Josipovici -- From Shanghai (1993) / Jonathan Wilson -- Noa and Noah (1998) / Elena Lappin -- Selflessness; or Alexander and His Electric Wok (1998) / Jonathan Treitel -- Shaking Hands with Theodor Herzl (1998).

ISBN

• 0803214790 (cl. : alk. paper)
• 0803263880 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97024412

OCLC

ocm37157589

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries