Research Catalog

Title

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature : Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth / Ranen Omer-Sherman.

Author

Omer-Sherman, Ranen.

Publication

[Waltham, Mass.] : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xiii, 341 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Uniform Title

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.

Subjects

• Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation
• Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 > Criticism and interpretation
• Jewish literature > History and criticism
• Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887 > Criticism and interpretation
• Jewish diaspora in literature
• Zionism in literature
• Syrkin, Marie, 1899-1989 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.

Contents

1. "Thy People Are My People": Emma Lazarus, Zion, and Jewish Modernity in the 1880s -- 2. "It Will Not Be the Saving Remnant": Marie Syrkin and the Post-Holocaust Politics of Jewish American Identity -- 3. Convivencia, Hybridity, and the Jewish Urban Modernist -- 4. "Palestine Was a Halting Place, One of Many": Diasporism in Charles Reznikoff's Nine Plays and Beyond -- 5. "No Coherence": Philip Roth's Lamentations for Diaspora -- 6. "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) -- Conclusion: Jewish Dreaming, Jewish Geography in a Transitional Age.

ISBN

• 1584652012
• 1584652020 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001005972

OCLC

• ocm48100715
• SCSB-4263318

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries