Title Beyond marginality : Anglo-Jewish literature after the Holocaust / Efraim Sicher

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) Series SUNY series on modern Jewish literature & culture SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture. Contents Writers in the isles -- Chapter 1: Assimilators and assimilated: from Israel Zangwill to Louis Golding -- Chapter 2: Contemporary Anglo-Jewish literature: a political and cultural background -- East -- Chapter 3: East end writers I: Litvinoff, Mankowitz, Kops -- Chapter 4: East end writers II: Arnold Wesker -- East-North-East -- Chapter 5: Hackney and other provinces: Harold Pinter and Peter Shaffer -- North-West -- Chapter 6: The golders green novel: Glanville, Charles, Rubens, Raphael -- After -- Chapter 7: Anglo-Jewish poetry after the Holocaust: Dannie Abse and Jon Silkin -- Chapter 8: The poetry of survival Summary A study of the effects of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the search for Jewish identity on Anglo-Jewish writers. Pre-World War II literature reflected the antisemitism of working-class Jewish districts, while many postwar writers describe the inability of middle-class Jews to integrate fully into English society. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) Analysis English literature History and criticism 20th century English literature Jewish authors History and criticism Jews Intellectual life Great Britain Jews in literature Judaism and literature Great Britain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-228) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Jews -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life Judaism and literature -- Great Britain Jews in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature English literature -- Jewish authors Jews in literature Jews -- Intellectual life Judaism and literature Jüdische Literatur Literatur Letterkunde. Engels. Joden. Schrijvers. Geschichte 1950-1985. English literature -- Jewish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Jews in literature. Great Britain Großbritannien Englisch. Juden. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 84015266 ISBN 9781438419947 1438419945

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