Research Catalog

Title

The literature of American Jews, edited by Theodore L. Gross.

Author

Gross, Theodore L.

Publication

New York, Free Press [1973]

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP

Description

xvii, 510 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Drawing on fiction, poetry, drama, and critical essays, The Literature of American Jews is a testimony to the rich literary expression of Jewish Americans - its birth in the migration of Eastern Europeans, its later record of that immigrant experience, and its remarkable flowering after World War II.

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Geschichte 1800-1970
• Geschichte 1850-1970
• American literature > Jewish authors
• Jews > United States > Literary collections
• Jews in literature
• Jews
• Literature
• Jews
• Jews in literature
• American literature > Jewish authors
• Anthologie
• Juden
• Literatur
• American literature
• United States
• USA
• Juden

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Anthologie
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Note

• Foreward by Elie Wiesel.
• gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 490-504) and index.

Contents

• Part I : early literature and the East-European migration. An immigrant in New York ; An American Judaism / Isaac Mayer Wise -- Hymn 27, Man of the world ; Exalted theme of human praise / Penina Moise -- One year ago ; Hear, o Israel / Adah Isaacs Menken -- In exile ; The new Ezekiel ; The banner of the Jew ; The crowing of the red cock ; Venus of the Louvre ; The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- I discover America, from The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan -- The promised land / Mary Antin.
• Part II : between the wars. Upstream ; The island within / Ludwig Lewisohn -- The chosen people, from Our America / Waldo Frank -- Did God make bedbugs? from Jews without money / Michael Gold -- The lost tribe / Ben Hecht -- Call it sleep ; No longer home / Henry Moth -- Author's preface to Summer in Williamsburg ; Summer in Williamsburg / Daniel Fuchs -- Awake and sing / Clifford Odets.
• Part III : after the war, a creative awakening. Fiction. Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The facts of life / Paul Goodman -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Herzog / Saul Bellow -- Monte Sant' Angelo / Arthur Miller -- America! America! / Delmore Schwartz -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The marshal and the Nazi / Norman Mailer -- Aristotle and the hired thugs / Herbert Gold -- Portnoy's complaint / Philip Roth -- Jake Bluffstein and Adolph Hitler / Irvin Faust -- Yom Kippur : the day without forgiveness / Elie Wiesel.
• Part III : after the war, a creative awakening. Poetry. Once and for all ; The would-be Hungarian / Delmore Schwartz -- The blood is justified ; To be a Jew in the twentieth century / Muriel Rukeyser -- Shylock ; Jew ; The murder of Moses / Karl Shapiro -- One forever alien ; Debate with the rabbi / Howard Nemerov -- Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956 / Allen Ginsberg.
• Part III : after the war, a creative awakening. Criticism. Under forty (symposium) / Lionel Trilling -- Under forty (symposium) / Delmore Schwartz -- Under forty (symposium) / Muriel Rukeyser -- Introduction to A Malamud reader / Philip Rahv -- Under forty (symposium) ; David Levinsky : the Jew as American millionaire / Isaac Rosenfeld -- Under forty (symposium) ; The Jew as modern American writer / Alfred Kazin -- Zion as main street / Leslie Fiedler -- Reflections on Jewish identity / Daniel Bell -- Sholom Aleichem : voice of our past / Irving Howe -- The religion of American Jews / Nathan Glazer -- Harry Golden and the American audience ; Symposium : Jewishness and the younger intellectuals. Norman Podhoretz ; Herbert Gold ; Wallace Markfield ; Philip Roth / Theodore Solotaroff.

ISBN

• 0029131901
• 9780029131909

LCCN

72093311

OCLC

• ocm00668183
• 668183
• SCSB-8785820

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library