The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
Editors: Brauner, David and Stahler, Axel
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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$230.00

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$345.00
ISBN: 978-0-74-864615-9
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count:
9
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Jews Have Legs - Mark Shechner
- Introduction: Modern Jewish Fiction - David Brauner and Axel Stähler
- Part I: American Jewish Fiction
- 1 Pioneering Women Writers and the De-ghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction - Lori Harrison-Kahan
- 2 Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow - Catherine Morley
- 3 The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction - Victoria Aarons
- 4 ‘Are you kidding me?’ Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield and Bruce Jay Friedman - David Gooblar
- 5 American Jewish Life Writing, Illness and the Ethics of Innovation - Aimee Pozorski
- 6 From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women's Writing - Rachel S. Harris
- 7 Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigre Jewish Writers from the USSR - Sasha Senderovich
- 8 History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories - David Brauner
- 9 Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner's ‘A Contract with God’ - Sarah Lightman
- 10 The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction - Jennifer Lemberg
- 11 Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers - Monica Osborne
- 12 Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren't - Debra Shostak
- Part II: British Jewish Fiction
- 13 The Postwar ‘New Wave’ of British Jewish Writing - Efraim Sicher
- 14 Jewish Emigre and Refugee Writers in Britain - David Herman
- 15 Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons - Phyllis Lassner
- 16 Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature - Ruth Gilbert
- 17 Life Writing and the East End - Devorah Baum
- 18 ‘Almost too good to be true’: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon - Axel Stähler
- 19 The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon - Axel Stähler
- 20 British Jewish Holocaust Fiction - Sue Vice
- 21 Reading Matters: ‘Marginal’ British Jewish Writers - Beate Neumeier
- Part III: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction
- 22 Jewish Writing in Canada - Ira Nadel
- 23 South African Jewish Writers - Linda Weinhouse
- 24 Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia - Claudia B. Braude
- 25 Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey - Serge Liberman
- 26 ‘Migrant’ Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora - Sandra Singer
- 27 Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War - Emily Robins Sharpe
- 28 Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie - Shaul Bassi
- List of Contributors
- Works Cited