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The title is perhaps a bit deceptive, for this is assuredly more than `handbook' might indicate. . . . Fried's anthology is a truly complex work, bringing together eighteen essays of mostly uniform high quality, and masses of bibliographic resources to present a comprehensive overview. . . . Fried's book does not present the original works themselves, but rather culls mostly outstanding essays on the prose, poetry, drama, and literary criticism produced by Jewish writers in America from the final decades of the last century to the present. Studies in American Jewish Literature
Focusing on the Jewish contribution to American writing, this guide offers a comprehensive view of Jewish identity and experience in American society, together with important bibliographic information for the scholar or researcher. In eighteen essays written by a distinguished group of specialists, it provides a wealth of fact, interpretation, and commentary relating to American-Jewis
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction by Lewis Fried In the Beginning: American-Jewish Fiction, t880-1930 by David Martin Fine American-Jewish Fiction, 1930-1945 by Lewis Fried American-Jewish Fiction Since 1945 by Bonnie K. Lyons The Greening of American-Jewish Drama by Ellen Schiff American-Jewish Poetry: An Overview by R. Barbara Gitenstein Yiddish Dreams in America by Joseph C. Landis American Yiddish Literary Criticism by Hannah Berliner Fischthal A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish by Kathryn Hellerstein Makers of a Modern American-Jewish Theology by Arnold Jacob Wolf Zionist Ideology in America by David Polish American-Jewish Autobiography, 1912 to the Present by Steven J. Rubin Images of America in American-Jewish Fiction by Sanford E. Marovitz Eastern Europe in American-Jewish Writing by Asher Z. Milbauer Shadows of Identity: German-Jewish and American-Jewish Literature--A Comparative Study by Gershon Shaked (Translated by Jeffrey Green) Fiction of the Holocaust by Dorothy Seidman Bilik The Holocaust and Its Historiography: The Major Texts by Saul Friedman American-Jewish Fiction: The Germanic Reception by Sepp L. Tiefenthaler Guide to European Bibliography by Sepp L. Tiefenthaler Selected Reference Materials and Resources
