| Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature Contributor(s): Budick, Emily Miller (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791450686 ISBN-13: 9780791450680 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - General - Literary Criticism | Jewish |
| Dewey: 892.436 |
| LCCN: 00051017 |
| Series: Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.9" W x 8.38" (0.86 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities. The disinclination of Israeli and American Jewish fictional narratives to gravitate toward one another tells us much about the processes of Jewish self-definition as expressed in literary texts over the last fifty years. Through essays by prominent Israeli Americanists, American Hebraists, Israeli critics of Hebrew writing, and American specialists in the field of Jewish writing, the book shows how modern Jewish culture rewrites the Jewish tradition across quite different ideological imperatives, such as Zionist metanarrative, the urge of Jewish immigrants to find Israel in America, and socialism. The contributors also explore how that narrative turn away from religious tradition to secular identity has both enriched and impoverished Jewish modernity. |