Title: The modern Jewish canon : a journey through language and culture /
Authors: Wisse, Ruth R.
Publisher: Free Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Jewish fiction History and criticism.; Literature, Modern Jewish authors History and criticism.; Canon (Literature); Jews in literature; Judaism and literature.
Abstract: The author examines Jewish language and culture as seen through Jewish literature and looks at the characteristics which make a book "Jewish."
Contents: The comedy of endurance : Sholem Aleichem -- The logic of language and the trials of the Jews : Franz Kafka and Yosef Haim Brenner -- Literature of the Russian Revolution : from Isaac Babel to Vasily Grossman -- Between the wars : the Singer family of Warsaw -- A farewell to Poland : Jacob Glatstein and S.Y. Agnon -- Shoah, Jhurbn, Holocaust : testimonies in native and adopted tongues -- The Zionist fate in English hands : from George Eliot to A.M. Klein -- The immigrant phase : American Jewish fiction from 1900 to 1950 -- Writing beyond alienation : Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth --A chapter in the making : Israeli Literature.