The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Abstract

Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer 1. Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer 2. Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel 3. The East European immigrants Priscilla Wald 4. Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies 5. Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz 6. Multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher 7. Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber 8. Jewish American poetry Maeera Shreiber 9. Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald 10. Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse 11. The Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick 12. Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar 13. Contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky 14. Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer.