The modern Jewish canon
Subtitle: a journey through language and culture
By: Ruth R. Wisse.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Jewish fiction -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Judaism and literature.; Canon (Literature); Jews in literature.
Description: "In The Modern Jewish Canon, Wisse takes us on a journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the twentieth century, from Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick.

The modern Jewish canon Wisse proposes comprises those books that convey an experience of Jewish actuality, those in which "the authors or characters know and let the reader know that they are Jews," for better or worse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-384) and index.