Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature

by Budick, Emily Miller

• ISBN13: 9780791450680
• ISBN10: 0791450686
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity	23	(22)
Eliezer Schweid
Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation	45	(12)
A. B. Yehoshua
The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer	57	(22)
Morris Dickstein
Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back	79	(16)
H. M. Daleski
Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self	95	(20)
Gershon Shaked
Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature	115	(16)
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture	131	(16)
David G. Roskies
The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home	147	(30)
Ruth Wisse
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	(20)
Michael P. Kramer
The African American and Israeli ``Other'' in the Construction of Jewish American Identity	197	(16)
Emily Miller Budick
Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language	213	(22)
Yitzhak Laor
Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity	235	(24)
Nili Rachel Scharf Gold
German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked	259	(16)
Wolfgang Iser
List of Contributors	275	(4)
Index	279