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Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

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Jennifer Glaser
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 625–628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717326
Published: 01 September 2014
...Jennifer Glaser Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers . By Chametzky Jules . 2012 . Cambridge : Meredith Winter Press . $23.95 . American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States . By Weingrad Michael...
View articletitled, Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature Since 1969 View PDF for article titled, Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature Since 1969
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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary

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Sonnet Retman
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646928
Published: 01 June 2014
...Sonnet Retman Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America . By Jun Helen Heran . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 198 pp. Paper , $22.00 . Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing...
View articletitled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Imaginary View PDF for article titled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Imaginary
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A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America

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Maria Damon
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 674–677.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-674
Published: 01 September 2002
... her project of situating Stein in the con- text of Jewish social science. Perhaps because of September 11, I couldn’t share the editors’ sense of being haunted by the ghost of John-John Kennedy. On the other hand, important markers of history, popular culture, and identity do turn up in this sort...
View articletitled, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America View PDF for article titled, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America
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New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics

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Alan Golding
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 220–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-090
Published: 01 March 2010
...–1995 . By C. T. Funkhouser. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxiv, 349 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $39.95. Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics . By Maeera Y. Shreiber. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xi, 287 pp. $55.00. Book Reviews Folded Selves...
View articletitled, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Poetics View PDF for article titled, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Poetics
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Figure 7 Nimdok about to perform a cruel medical procedure on a Jewish child in a Nazi concentration camp in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995). Screenshot taken by author

Nimdok about to perform a cruel medical procedure on a Jewish child in a Na...

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in Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 7 Nimdok about to perform a cruel medical procedure on a Jewish child in a Nazi concentration camp in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995 ). Screenshot taken by author More
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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335633
Published: 01 March 2019
... L. Smith . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2016 . ix, 223 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination . By Jennifer Glaser . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 198 pp. Cloth, $99.95...
View articletitled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy View PDF for article titled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
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The History of Jewish American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence

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Benjamin Schreier
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335373
Published: 01 March 2019
...Benjamin Schreier Abstract This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously...
View articletitled, The History of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence View PDF for article titled, The History of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence
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The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

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Joshua Logan Wall
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788789
Published: 01 March 2017
...Joshua Logan Wall The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History . By Schreier Benjamin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 270 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American...
View articletitled, The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literary History Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture View PDF for article titled, The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literary History Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
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Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars,1930-1990

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Theodore L. Steinberg
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 217–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-217
Published: 01 March 2000
... 2000.2.24 11:09 196 American Literature and included, I assume, because ‘‘MORRIS ROSENFELD (1862–1923) [was] a Jewish immigrant to the United States, [who] published his Songs from...
View articletitled, Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Literary Scholars,1930-1990 View PDF for article titled, Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Literary Scholars,1930-1990
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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness

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Dean Franco
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959634
Published: 01 March 2013
...Dean Franco Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America . By Koltun-Fromm Ken . Bloomington : Univ. of Indiana Press . 2010 . xi , 342 pp. Paper , $28.00 ; e-book , $22.90 . Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness . By Myers Helene...
View articletitled, Material Culture and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American <span class="search-highlight">Jewishness</span> View PDF for article titled, Material Culture and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American <span class="search-highlight">Jewishness</span>
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Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer

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Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-119
Published: 01 March 2003
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2003 Stephanie Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Foote Jewish Writer lmost no one reads Henry Harland’s novels any- 6815...
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Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled

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Michael P. Kramer
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 210–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-210
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled. By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Ethnic studies...
View articletitled, Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled View PDF for article titled, Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled
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The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre; Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater; Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture; Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture

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Michael A. Elliott
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-450
Published: 01 June 2003
.... of Arizona Press. 2001. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture. By Warren Rosenberg. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 312 pp. $34.95...
View articletitled, The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre; Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater; Legacy of Rage: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Masculinity, Violence, and Culture; Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture View PDF for article titled, The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre; Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater; Legacy of Rage: <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Masculinity, Violence, and Culture; Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture
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Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature

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Sam B. Girgus
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 216–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-216
Published: 01 March 2001
... is perennial, a mystery that contempo- rary writers—and critics—valiantly try to understand. Blanche Gelfant, Dartmouth College Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature. By Rachel Rubin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 189 pp. $29.95. In one scene of The Sopranos, the HBO television series...
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Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era

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Carol Farley Kessler
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 162–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-162
Published: 01 March 2002
... via a bidirectional genitive the re- lay between representation (High Culture’s construction of Jewish secular- ism) and self-determination (the reconstruction of High Culture by seculariz- ing Jews) that is his formidable subject. Freedman traces a complex history with erudite, nuanced rigor...
View articletitled, Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Women&#x27;s Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era View PDF for article titled, Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Women&#x27;s Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era
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Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique

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Yoonmee Chang
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 858–861.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-858
Published: 01 December 2005
...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...
View articletitled, Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique View PDF for article titled, Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
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Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

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Allison Schachter
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 635–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-037
Published: 01 September 2009
...Allison Schachter © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust . By Anita Norich. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xiii, 215 pp. $45.00. Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity...
View articletitled, Discovering Exile: Yiddish and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: <span class="search-highlight">Jewishness</span>, Ethnicity, Modernity View PDF for article titled, Discovering Exile: Yiddish and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: <span class="search-highlight">Jewishness</span>, Ethnicity, Modernity
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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth

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Sarah Eden Schiff
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 854–856.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-055
Published: 01 December 2007
...Sarah Eden Schiff Duke University Press 2007 Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s . By Janet Handler Burstein. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2006. xv, 264 pp. $45.00. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity . By Ross Posnock...
View articletitled, Telling the Little Secrets: American <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth&#x27;s Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth View PDF for article titled, Telling the Little Secrets: American <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth&#x27;s Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
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Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars; Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction

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Ian Finseth
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 433–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-015
Published: 01 June 2007
... and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction . By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 201 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic. By Jeffrey Richards. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 392 pp. $85.00...
View articletitled, Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars; Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Fiction View PDF for article titled, Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars; Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Fiction
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Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth; All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s

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Milette Shamir
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 402–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-402
Published: 01 June 2004
... Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth. By Ranen Omer-Sherman. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis Univ. Press; Univ. Press of New England. 2002. xiii, 341 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s...
View articletitled, Diaspora and Zionism in <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth; All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s View PDF for article titled, Diaspora and Zionism in <span class="search-highlight">Jewish</span> American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth; All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s