Research Catalog

Title

The Jewish writer / Jill Krementz.

Author

Krementz, Jill

Publication

• New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1998]
• ©1998

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vendler, Helen, 1933-
• Henry Holt and Company publisher.

Description

[8], 150, [2] pages : illustrations, portraits; 27 cm

Summary

The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This new collection, spanning three decades, brings together in photographs and text the many and varied Jewish voices - novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and scholars - that have enriched twentieth-century literature.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jewish authors > United States
• Authors, American > United States
• Jewish authors > United States > Portraits
• Authors, American > 20th century > Portraits
• Jews > United States > Intellectual life
• Judaism and literature > United States
• Portrait photography
• Écrivains juifs > États-Unis > Portraits
• Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Portraits
• Juifs > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle
• Judaïsme et littérature > États-Unis
• Portraits (Photographie)
• commercial portraiture
• studio portraits
• Authors, American
• Jewish authors
• Jews > Intellectual life
• Judaism and literature
• Schriftsteller
• Schrijvers
• Joden
• Amerikaans
• Jewish authors > United States > Portraits
• Jews > United States > Intellectual life
• Judaism and literature > United States
• United States
• Juden
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Dust jackets.
• Portraits.
• Portraits

Note

• Publisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint.
• Copyright statement dated on title page verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Saul Bellow -- Cynthia Ozick -- S.J. Perelman -- Francine Prose -- Pearl Abraham -- James McBride -- Chaim Potok -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Rebecca Goldstein -- Erica Jong -- Gerald Stern -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen -- Joseph Skibell -- Herman Wouk -- Grace Paley -- Norman Mailer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Lionel and Diana Trilling -- Philip Roth -- Tillie Olsen -- Alfred Kazin -- Louis Begley -- Philip Rahv and Alan Lelchuk -- Bernard Malamud -- Joan Nathan -- Aryeh Lev Stollman -- Bruce Jay Friedman -- Ricky Jay -- Amos Oz -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Maurice Sendak -- David I. Kertzer -- Elie Wiesel -- Stanley Kunitz -- Phillip Lopate -- Cheryl Pearl Sucher -- Aharon Appelfeld -- Tony Kushner -- Irving Howe -- Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter -- Jill Bialosky -- Hannah Arendt -- Daniel Fuchs -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Anne Roiphe -- E.L. Doctorow -- Meyer Levin -- Robert Pinsky -- Chava Rosenfarb -- Sir Isaiah Berlin -- Joseph Heller -- Belva Plain -- Arthur Miller -- Irwin Shaw -- Daphne Merkin -- Jonathan Rosen -- Melvin Jules Bukiet -- Rosellen Brown -- Max Apple -- Calvin Trillin -- Jerzy Kosinski -- Joseph Machlis -- Dani Shapiro -- David Mamet -- E.M. Broner -- Norman Manea -- Ben Katchor -- Johanna Kaplan -- A.B. Yehoshua -- Ruth R. Wisse -- Budd Schulberg -- Eli N. Evans -- Yehuda Amichai -- Stanley Elkin -- Allegra Goodman.

ISBN

• 0805060375
• 9780805060379

LCCN

98020039

OCLC

• 39045087
• SCSB-11136704

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library