Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology

by Chametzky, Jules; Felstiner, John; Flanzbaum, Hilene; Hellerstein, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780393048094
• ISBN10: 0393048098
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Classic and Contemporary Writers:Here, generously represented, are the writers who have shaped thetradition, among them Emma Lazarus, Abraham Cahan, Henry Roth,Nathanael West, Clifford Odets, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, SaulBellow, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Allen Ginsberg, Cynthia Ozick, andHarold Bloom. Joining them are younger writers such as Melvin JulesBukiet, Jacqueline Osherow, Art Speigelman, Steve Stern and AllegraGoodman, who bring the tradition up to its thriving present. Yiddish and Hebrew Writing in AmericaJewish American Literature: Traces in breadth and depth America#xE2;#x80;#x99;s richYiddish-language culture, from the work of Morris Rosenfeld and DavidEdelshtadt in the 1880s through the Yunge and Introspectivist movementsto the post-Holocaust writings of Kadya Molodowsky and Isaac BashevisSinger. Also represented is Hebrew writing, in translations of the workof Ephraim E. Lisitzky and modernist Gabriel Preil. Special Sections:"Jewish Humor" offers choice selections of Groucho Marx, Woody Allen,and a cluster of perennial Jewish jokes; "The Golden Age of theBroadway Song" samples the unforgettable lyrics of Oscar HammersteinII, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, and Stephen Sondheim, among others;"Jews Translating Jews" reflects on the translator#xE2;#x80;#x99;s role intransmitting tradition, gathering poems translated from Yiddish,Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish by Jewish Americanpoets from Emma Lazarus to David Unger. Helpful and Lively Reader#xE2;#x80;#x99;s Apparatus:The Reader#xE2;#x80;#x99;s Apparatus includes a general introduction, periodintroductions, author headnotes, explanatory annotations, and selectedbibliographies.