Haunted in the New World
Subtitle: Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs
By: Donald Weber.
Series: Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States; Americanization; American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jews in the performing arts -- United States; Jews in literature; Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects; Jews in popular culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : adjusting to America; title: Outsider in the old world, greenhorn in the new : Christopher Newman and David Levinsky; title: Gastronomic nostalgia : Anzia Yezierska; title: The claims of descent : immigrant cinema; title: Haunted in the new world : Henry Roth; title: To make "a Jew" : projecting antisemitism in post-war America; title: Memory and repression : Goldberg variations; title: The "Jewish opera" : Saul Bellow and other Jewish sons; title: Epilogue : nostalgia and 1950s popular culture.