Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature
Subtitle: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth
By: Ranen Omer-Sherman.
Series: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Syrkin, Marie, 1899-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation.; Jewish literature -- United States -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Zionism in literature.; Jewish diaspora in literature.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- United States.; Jews in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. "Thy People Are My People": Emma Lazarus, Zion, 15; title: andJewish Modernity in the 188os; title: 2. "It Will Not Be the Saving Remnant": Marie Syrkin and 68; title: the Post-Holocaust Politics ofJewish American Identity; title: 3. Convivencia, Hybridity, and the Jewish Urban Modernist lno; title: 4. "Palestine Was a Halting Place, One of Many": 151; title: Diasporism in Charles Reznikoff's Nine Plays; title: and Beyond; title: 5. "No Coherence": Philip Roth's Lamentations 191; title: for Diaspora; title: 6. "A Stranger in the House": Assimilation, Madness, 234; title: and Passing in Roth's Figure of the Pariah Jew in; title: Sabbath's Theater (1995), American Pastoral (1997),; title: and The Human Stain (2000); title: Conclusion: Jewish Dreaming,Jewish Geography 267; title: in a Transitional Age.