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Dramatic Encounters: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Drama, Poetry, and Humor and the Black-Jewish Literary Relationship »

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Authors: Louis Harap, American Jewish Archives
ISBN-13: 9780313253881, ISBN-10: 0313253889
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1987
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Louis Harap

LOUIS HARAP, the former editor of Jewish Life, is currently on the editorial board of Jewish Currents.

Book Synopsis

"There is so much to Louis Harap's three volumes, this extraordinary trilogy, that a reviewer can only hint at the depth, penetrating intelligence, research, and insight of the author. This is a monumental work." American Jewish Archives

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Leonard W. Doob

Foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus

Preface

Special Black-Jewish Literary Relations

From Dialect Humor to Black Humor

Jews as Poets

The Jew in Drama

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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