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.

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