Legacy of rage
Subtitle: Jewish masculinity, violence, and culture
By: Warren Rosenberg.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- United States.; Masculinity in literature.; Violence in literature.; Jews in literature.
Description: "In books, television programs, and films, Jewish men are often depicted as erudite, comedic, malleable, and nonthreatening - somewhere between Clark Kent and the early Woody Allen. Yet as Warren Rosenberg shows in this illuminating study, this widespread cultural image is not only overly simplistic, it is at odds with a legacy of Jewish male violence that goes back to the first chapters of Genesis when Cain slew Abel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix; title: 1 Bugsy and Me: Jewish Men and Violence 1; title: 2 "Devoted to Destruction": God and Violence in; title: the Hebrew Scriptures 32; title: 3 "A Heritage of Rage": Golems and Gimpels in; title: Jewish Literature of the Early Twentieth Century 68; title: 4 White Negroes and Protestant Jews: Norman Mailer's; title: Hybrid Heroes and Jewish Male Violence I 5; title: 5 Mailer's Brothers: The "Counterlife" of Violence in; title: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth I53; title: 6 Jewish Men with Guns: Remasculinization in; title: Contemporary Jewish American Literature and Film 207; title: 7 Beyond Mailer: Imagining an End to Violence; title: in Cynthia Ozick and Tony Kushner 258; title: Epilogue: Saving Private Ryan 285; title: Works Cited 289; title: Index 301.