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Teaching Jewish American Literature
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States.

This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege.

Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

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Teaching Jewish American Literature
A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States.

This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege.

Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

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A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States.

This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege.

Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

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ISBN-13: 9781603294461
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 04/01/2020
Series: Options for Teaching , #49
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 356
File size: 19 MB
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Table of Contents

Introduction Roberta Rosenberg Rachel Rubinstein 1

Part I Reframing Jewish American Histories, Rethinking Canons

Using Early Jewish American Literature to Teach about Race Laura Arnold Leibman 23

Expanding the Jewish American Literary Canon for Hebrew Day School Students Louis Gordon 37

Teaching Jewish American Literature with an Anthology Kathryn Hellerstein 45

Dismantling Christian Readings of Jewish American Literature in the Christian College: A. M. Klein's The Second Scroll Lucas Wilson 58

The Sense of Bashert: Contingency in Dara Horn's The World to Come and Nicole Krauss's History of Love Lori Hope Lefkovitz 63

Part II Comparative Teaching Approaches

Jewish American Literature and the Multicultural Canon Dean Franco 73

Team-Teaching Jewish and Caribbean Immigration Literature to Diverse Students in a State University Meri-Jane Rochelson Donna Aza Weir-Soley 82

Teaching Black-Jewish Literary Relations in Transnational Perspective Sarah Phillips Casteel 90

Teaching Jewish American Children's and Young Adult Literature Jodi Eichler-Levine 99

Teaching with Things: The Clutter of Russian Jewish American Literature Sasha Senderovich 108

Teaching a Jewish and Arab American Literary Collaboration in Iraq Nadia Fayidh Mohammed 115

Part III Multilingual and Transnational Approaches

Unsettling the Linguistic and Geographical Borders of Jewish American Literature: Régine Robin's La Québécoite Justin Cammy 127

Jews beyond America: The One and the Many Ilan Stavans 137

American Poetry, Jewish Prayer, World Literature Naomi B. Sokoloff 144

Beyond English: Language, Sound, and Voice in Jewish American Literature Hana Wirth-Nesher 153

Postvernacular Ladino: Chameleon Languages and Translation Studies Joanna Meadvin Katharine G. Trostel 163

Sephardic Writing of the United States in a Comparative, Trans-American, and Transatlantic Frame Dalia Kandiyoti 172

Part IV Gender and Sexuality Approaches

Writing New Kinds of Jews: A Course in Literary Genetics and Masculinity Yaron Peleg 183

Gender, Genre, and Lesbian Identity in Four Modernist Jewish Texts Corinne E. Blackmer 190

Teaching Jewish American Women's Writing Judith Lewin 198

Poetic Pedagogies: Teaching Irena Klepfisz in Israel/Palestine Zohar Weiman-Kelman 208

Jews, Gender, and Comix Peter Antelyes 216

Teaching Angels in America in the Twenty-First Century: Memory, Mourning, and Meaning Linda Schlossberg 231

Part V Multidisciplinary and Digital Humanities Approaches

Musical Theater as Literature: Art and Identity That Thrive on Change Judah M. Cohen 241

Serious Fun: Teaching Jewish American Humor Jennifer Caplan 251

Digital Jews: Questioning Borders in Jewish American Literature Laini Kavaloski 258

After the Golem: Teaching Golems, Kabbalah, Exile, Imagination, and Technological Takeover Temma Berg 267

Teaching Contemporary Jewish American Holocaust Literature: Memory, "Fatigue," and Narratives of Post-Holocaust Return Jennifer Lemberg 276

Part VI New Approaches and Key Texts

The Surprising Versatility of Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot Karen E. H. Skinazi Lori Harrison-Kahan 287

Teaching Abraham Cahan's Yekl as a Comedy of Arrival and Dislocation John Wharton Lowe 296

Displacement and Identity in the Work of Anzia Yezierska and Helena Maria Viramontes Judith R. Phagan 304

Teaching Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers in Australia Sarah Gleeson-White Lucas Thompson 308

Anzia Yezierska and the Changing Fortunes of Jewishness Catherine Rottenberg 312

Four Approaches to Teaching "Goodbye, Columbus" Josh Lambert Rachel Gordan Benjamin Schreier Bettina Hofmann Julian Levinson 317

Part VII Resources

Resources Roberta Rosenberg Rachel Rubinstein 329

Notes on Contributors 341

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