Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature
Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.
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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. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceIntroduction1Ch. 1The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity23Ch. 2Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation45Ch. 3The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer57Ch. 4Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back79Ch. 5Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self95Ch. 6Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature115Ch. 7Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture131Ch. 8The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home147Ch. 9The Conversion of the Jews and Other Narratives of Self-Definition: Notes Toward the Writing of Jewish American Literary History; or, Adventures in Hebrew School177Ch. 10The African American and Israeli "Other" in the Construction of Jewish American Identity197Ch. 11Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language213Ch. 12Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity235Ch. 13German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked259List of Contributors275Index279
