Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One.
The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity
Eliezer Schweid
Chapter Two.
Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation
A. B. Yehoshua
Chapter Three.
The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer
Morris Dickstein
Chapter Four.
Philip Roth's o Jerusalem and Back
H. M. Daleski
Chapter Five.
Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Neighborhood to the Self
Gershon Shaked
Chapter Six.
Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Chapter Seven.
Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture
David G. Roskies
Chapter Eight.
The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home
Ruth Wisse
Chapter Nine.
The Conversion of the Jews and Other Narratives of Self-Definition: Notes Toward the Writing of Jewish American Literary History; or, Adventures in Hebrew School
Michael P. Kramer
Chapter Ten.
The African American and Israeli Other in the Construction of Jewish American Identity
Emily Miller Budick
Chapter Eleven.
Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language
Yitzhak Laor
Chapter Twelve.
Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity
Nili Rachel Scharf Gold
Chapter Thirteen.
German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked
Wolfgang Iser
Contributors
Index