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What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction

Title
What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.
Author
Aarons, Victoria.
Publication
Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2005.

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181 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • American fiction > History and criticism
  • Jews > United States > Intellectual life
  • Covenants > Judaism
  • Judaism and literature > United States
  • Judaism in literature
  • Jews in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-176) and index.
Contents
The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway? -- Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant -- Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness -- Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem" -- The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz -- The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.
ISBN
0874139015 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004015173
OCLC
  • ocm55948124
  • SCSB-8950756
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library