Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 /

Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1997]
Series:SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
Subjects:
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Jewish fiction > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Literatura comparada.
Literatura hebraica.
Literatura norte americana.
Israel > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Israel, the foremost preoccupation of the American Jew
  • Meyer Levin against the grain: A Zionist writer takes on America's pre-Zionist Zeitgeist
  • Embattled uris: A look back at Exodus
  • Saul Bellow's Middle East problem
  • Hugh Nissenson's Israel: In search of a viable Jewish ethos in Israel
  • Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic complications, and current crises
  • Philip Roth's nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the post-colonial critique
  • Anne Roiphe's angst: A Jewish-American feminist looks at Israel
  • Tova Rich's daring vision; or, the feminization of Israel's penitent
  • Conclusion.