Jewish gangsters of modern literature /
Rubin, Rachel.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction : the dream of his kingdom -- Imagine you are a tiger : a new folk hero in Babel's Odessa tales -- Sordid generation : plundering ethnic culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch paunch and jowl -- Gang of little Yids : savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without money -- Business is business : the death of the gangster in Daniel Fuchs's novels of the 1930s -- Conclusion : the gangster's funeral -- Notes -- References cited -- Index.
Ornitz, Samuel, 1890-1957.
Fuchs, Daniel, 1909-1993
Gold, Michael, 1894-1967.
Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1941
American fiction
Judaism and literature
Jewish criminals in literature.
American fiction
Gangsters in literature.
Jews in literature.