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Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature »

Authors: E. Miller Budick, Emily Miller Budick
ISBN-13: 9780791450673, ISBN-10: 0791450678
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: E. Miller Budick

Book Synopsis

The 13 essays emerged from the Narratives of Self-definition in Israeli and Jewish American Fiction research symposium at the Hebrew University, 1996-97. Some consider particular authors or works, while others discuss broad topics such as Zionist identity, liturgy, jazz and Yiddish, and the African American and Israeli Other.

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	Preface
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity	23
Ch. 2	Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation	45
Ch. 3	The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer	57
Ch. 4	Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back	79
Ch. 5	Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self	95
Ch. 6	Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature	115
Ch. 7	Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture	131
Ch. 8	The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home	147
Ch. 9	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	177
Ch. 10	The African American and Israeli "Other" in the Construction of Jewish American Identity	197
Ch. 11	Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language	213
Ch. 12	Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity	235
Ch. 13	German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked	259
	List of Contributors	275
	Index	279