Jewish literature : a very short introduction An in depth thorough exploration of modern Jewish literature from 1492 to the 21st century rotating around the concept of aterritoriality to appreciate the diasporic journey Jews have embarked on across geographic and linguistic spheres from 1492 to the present. At the centre of it are canonical figures like Franz Kafka Isaac Babel Bruno Schulz Anne Frank Martin Buber Hannah Arendt Isaac Bashevis Singer Saul Bellow Philip Roth Grace Paley Jacobo Timerman Moacyr Scliar and Susan Sontag. Unlike the output of other national literatures Jewish literature doesnt have a fixed address. As a result its practitioners are at once insiders and outsiders