Jewish-American literature
Subtitle: an anthology of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism
By: edited, with an introd. and biographical notes, by Abraham Chapman
Series: A Mentor book
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 727
ISBN-13: 9780451613264
Subjects: Jewish authors; Biographies; Auteurs juifs; Literatur; Jews in literature; Anthologies; Literary collections; Juifs; History; Judaism and literature; Jews; Littérature américaine; History and criticism; American literature; Histoire et critique; Intellectual life
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Fiction.; title: A ghetto wedding  -- Abraham Cahan; title: Lampshade king  -- Joseph Opatoshu; title: The standard of living  -- Dorothy Parker; title: Fate  -- Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Christopher K*a*p*l*a*n [Kaplan]  -- Leo Rosten; title: A memorial synagogue  -- Paul Goodman; title: In dreams begin responsibilities  -- Delmore Schwartz; title: The lady of the lake  -- Bernard Malamud; title: The hand that fed me  -- Isaac Rosenfeld; title: The country of the crazy horse  -- Wallace Markfield; title: The big six  -- Bruce Jay Friedman; title: L'olam and White Shell Woman  -- Joanne Greenberg; title: The crazy old man  -- Hugh Nissenson; title: Eli, the fanatic  -- Philip Roth; title: The month of his birthday  -- Henia Karmel-Wolfe; title: The forecast -- Paul Friedman.; title: Autobiography.; title: Up stream  -- Ludwig Lewisohn; title: In the grip of cross-currents  -- Ephraim E. Listzky; title: Prison memoirs of an anarchist  -- Alexander Berkman; title: A walker in the city  -- Alfred Kazin; title: Groucho and me  -- Groucho Marx; title: Out of childhood  -- Muriel Rukeyser; title: "Whatever I have learned in my life is questions"  -- Elie Wiesel; title: My last two thousand years -- Herbert Gold.; title: Poetry.-- Bret Harte-- Emma Lazarus-- Horace Traubel-- Charles Reznikoff-- Kenneth Fearing-- Stanley Kunitz-- George Oppen-- Hyam Plutzik-- Muriel Rukeyser-- Karl Shapiro-- David Ignatow-- Howard Nemerov-- Denise Levertov-- Olga Levertoff-- Anthony Hecht-- Louis Simpson-- Rhoda Schwartz-- Edward Field-- Harvey Shapiro-- Allen Ginsberg-- Philip Levine-- Adrienne Rich-- Donald Finkel-- John Hollander-- Linda Pastan-- Stephen Berg-- Robert Mezey-- C.K. Williams-- Marvin Bell-- Stephen Parker-- Jerry Tecklin-- James Reiss-- Marcia Falk-- Richard Weisman-- Anita Barrows.; title: Criticism and contexts.; title: Who are the Jews?  -- Melville J. Herskovits; title: God in search of man : a philosophy of Judaism  -- Abraham Joshua Heschel; title: Introduction to Great Jewish short stories  -- Saul Bellow; title: Israel Baal Shem Tov  -- Elie Wiesel; title: Modern Hebrew literature : the quest for a new life  -- Simon Halkin; title: The world of Sholom Aleichem  -- Maurice Samuel; title: Genesis : the American Jewish novel through the twenties  -- Leslie A. Fiedler; title: The Jew as modern American writer  -- Alfred Kazin; title: Yiddish literature in the United States  -- Joseph Opatoshu; title: A quarter century of American Hebrew belles-lettres  -- Jacob Kabakoff; title: David Levinsky : the Jew as American millionaire  -- Isaac Rosenfeld; title: The tenth presidential paper : minorities  -- Norman Mailer; title: The spirit of Isaac Rosenfeld  -- Theodore Solotaroff; title: Jewish culture and the intellectuals  -- Norman Podhoretz; title: Breakthrough of contemporary American-Jewish literature  -- Irving Malin and Irwin Stark; title: Yiddish survivals in the new comedy  -- Nat Hentoff; title: Writing about Jews  -- Philip Roth; title: Philip Roth reconsidered -- Irving Howe.