| Description |
1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
| Contents |
Rethinking Mary Antin and The promised land / Jules Chametzky -- Between two worlds--Anzia Yezierska: longing for the new, bound to the old / Evelyn Avery -- Edna Ferber, Jewish American writer: Who knew? / Eileen H. Watts -- "My own design": finding identity in Anne Roiphe's writings / Melanie Levinson -- Conversation with Johanna Kaplan / Nahma Sandrow -- Johanna Kaplan and the freedom of attachment / Carol Iannone -- Norma Rosen's Jewish journey / Ann Shapiro -- Cynthia Ozick's Puttermesser papers: from whimsy to wisdom / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Rebecca Goldstein: tension and ambivalence / Anna P. Ronell -- Kei'tsad Mirakdim Lifnei HaKalah: how do you dance before the bride? / Miriyam Glazer -- Anxieties in the "modern context": fantasies of change in Allegra Goodman's fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Failed conquests: Jews and Germans in fictions and memoirs by American Jewish women / Susanne Klingenstein -- "Writing between worlds" / Tova Mirvis -- On being modern and Orthodox: a conversation with Tova Mirvis / Evelyn Avery -- Select annotated bibliography of contemporary Jewish American women writers / Eileen H. Watts |
| Summary |
After forty years of feminism, views of the traditional Jewish family, religion, and gender roles have changed. In the process a new literature has been created, new paradigms born, and many Jewish women writers have been reevaluated, reclaimed, and renamed, with their Jewish heritage often overlooked or misinterpreted. Modern Jewish Women Writers in America includes groundbreaking essays and interviews with scholars and authors who reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from being Jewish |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Jewish women -- United States -- Intellectual life
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Jews -- United States.
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Jewish women in literature.
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Jews in literature.
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Judaism.
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Gender studies: women.
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Literary studies: general.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Religion.
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American literature
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American literature -- Jewish authors
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American literature -- Women authors
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Jewish women in literature
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Jewish women -- Intellectual life
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Jews
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Jews in literature
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Joden.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Amerikaans.
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Social Change.
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Sociology & Social History.
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Social Sciences.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Avery, Evelyn Gross, 1940- editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780230604841 |
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0230604846 |
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9781349538027 |
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1349538027 |
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