Research Catalog

Title

Jewish in America / edited by Sara Blair, Jonathan Freedman.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Blair, Sara.
• Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-

Description

vi, 277 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Subjects

• Judaism in literature
• Jews > United States > Intellectual life
• Jews > United States > Literary collections
• Jews in literature
• American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
• Judaism > Literary collections
• Judaism and literature > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Jonathan Freedman and Sara Blair -- Drashes -- 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 -- A gathering of poems -- 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 -- Essays, stories, histories -- 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 America has not seemed like exile / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Sign under test / Charles Bernstein.

ISBN

• 0472098802 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0472068806 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004053674

OCLC

• ocm55678917
• SCSB-5111381

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries