Modern Jewish Women Writers in America

by E. Avery (Editor)

Overview

This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349538027
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/15/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Evelyn Avery is Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Towson University.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE EARLY YEARS - IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: 1910-1950s * Re-Thinking Mary Antin and The Promised Land - Jules Chametzky * Anzia Yezierska: Between Two Worlds; Bound to the Old, Longing for the New - Evelyn Avery * Edna Ferber, Jewish American Writer: Who Knew? - Eileen Watts * PART II:THE ROADS DIVERGE - ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1960s-1990s * “My Own Design”: Finding Identity in Anne Roiphe’s Writing - Melanie Levinson * Johanna Kaplan: The Author and Her Fiction - Nahma Sandrow and Carol Iannone * Norma Rosen’s Jewish Journey - Anne Shapiro * PART III: THE COVENANT CONFIRMED?: 1990s-2000 * Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom - Sarah Blacher Cohen * Rebecca Goldstein: Tension and Ambivalence - Anna P. Ronell * Dancing Before the Bride: An Autobiography - Miriyam Glazer * Fantasies of Change in Allegra Goodman’s Fiction - Victoria Aarons * PART IV: INTRO INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PENDULUM SWINGS * In Hitler’s Embrace: “Love”  between Jews and Germans in Binnie Kirschenbaum’s Fiction - Susanne Klingenstein * “Writing Between Worlds” - Tova Mirvis * Across the Generations: A Conversation - Evelyn Avery & Tova Mirvis * Annotated Select Bibliography, Jewish American Women Authors - Eileen Watts

Editorial Reviews

'This beautifully written collection offers a welcome overview of Jewish women writers and their heritage.' - Elaine B. Safer, Professor of English, University of Delaware

"The articles in this collection are superb and well situated with a splendid and original introduction by Avery. This is a strong contribution to the fields of Jewish Literature, Jewish American literature, women's studies and Jewish women's literature." - Dan Walden, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English and Comp.Lit., Penn State University; Editor, Studies in American Jewish Literature

'The scholars assembled in this collection are all cogent, effective writers. It was a pleasure to read this volume since the contributors understand the direction that much of Jewish-American literature is taking namely, to a deeper understandingof Jewish history, to Jewish languages (mainly Hebrew), to tradition in general, and to Jewish observance in particular.' - Sanford Pinsker, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Franklin and Marshall College

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