Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology,Used
Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology,Used
Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology,Used
Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology,Used

Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology,Used

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The Most Comprehensive Anthology of Jewish American Literature Ever Published: With the work of 145 writers, from 1645 to the present, writing in all genresfiction, poetry, drama, essays, letters, editorials, journals, autobiography, cartoons, song lyrics, and jokes. Classic and Contemporary Writers: Here, generously represented, are the writers who have shaped the tradition, among them Emma Lazarus, Abraham Cahan, Henry Roth, Nathanael West, Clifford Odets, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Allen Ginsberg, Cynthia Ozick, and Harold Bloom. Joining them are younger writers such as Melvin Jules Bukiet, Jacqueline Osherow, Art Speigelman, Steve Stern and Allegra Goodman, who bring the tradition up to its thriving present.Yiddish and Hebrew Writing in AmericaJewish American Literature: Traces in breadth and depth Americas rich Yiddishlanguage culture, from the work of Morris Rosenfeld and David Edelshtadt in the 1880s through the Yunge and Introspectivist movements to the postHolocaust writings of Kadya Molodowsky and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Also represented is Hebrew writing, in translations of the work of 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 the Broadway Song' samples the unforgettable lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, and Stephen Sondheim, among others; 'Jews Translating Jews' reflects on the translators role in transmitting tradition, gathering poems translated from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish by Jewish American poets from Emma Lazarus to David Unger.Helpful and Lively Readers Apparatus: The Readers Apparatus includes a general introduction, period introductions, author headnotes, explanatory annotations, and selected bibliographies.

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