Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs /

Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Donald, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
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.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : adjusting to America
  • Outsider in the old world, greenhorn in the new : Christopher Newman and David Levinsky
  • Gastronomic nostalgia : Anzia Yezierska
  • The claims of descent : immigrant cinema
  • Haunted in the new world : Henry Roth
  • To make "a Jew" : projecting antisemitism in post-war America
  • Memory and repression : Goldberg variations
  • The "Jewish opera" : Saul Bellow and other Jewish sons
  • Epilogue : nostalgia and 1950s popular culture.