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...Leena Kore Schröder Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI Tales of Abjection and Miscegenation: Virginia Woolf s and Leonard Woolf s “Jewish” Stories Leena Kore Schröder T h e r e can be no straightforward account of attitudes toward Jewishness in the work of Virginia...

...Irene Tucker Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature , by Wirth-Nesher Hana , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2006 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m Reviews Writing Jewish Call It English: The Languages o f Jewish American...

...Emmy Waldman As vexing questions of Jewish identity and Holocaust memory loom large, this essay asks what it would mean to read Maus as a Jewish text. Thinking, with Hillary Chute’s landmark 2006 essay, “The Shadow of a Past Time:, History and Graphic Representation in Maus ,” it uses Spiegelman’s...

...Adrian Wanner The city of Odessa has gained prominence in twentieth-century literature as a symbolic hub of sensuality, irreverent humor, and criminal ingenuity. While Odessa’s storied ethnic diversity is now largely reduced to a Russian/Ukrainian binary, the multicultural and Jewish Odessa lives...

...John Engle Mostly dismissed as a trivial entertainment, Frederick Kohner’s Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957) is in fact a telling aesthetic and cultural document. University of Vienna PhD, Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, and successful Hollywood screenwriter Kohner empathetically...

...Robert Francis Sommer This essay argues that in Henry Adams’s Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)—his seemingly romantic survey of medieval architecture, poetry, and philosophy—the many odious anti-Jewish slurs are grounded in the book’s attempt to trace “American genealogy” to its Anglo-Norman...

...Matthias Piccolruaz Konzett Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity , by Freedman Jonathan , New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 . 388 pages. Multiculturalism and the Jews , by Gilman Sander L. , New York : Routledge, Taylor, and Francis , 2006 . 293...

... to be identified as Jewish during the course of their travels. Writing to Margaret Llewelyn Davies on 28 April, she says: “we have got a letter from prince Bismarck in our pocket, as people say we might be unpopular as we are Jews” (Let­ ters 5: 388).2 Two weeks earlier, detailing in her diary her...

... Gary Shteyngart localism Russian Jewish American fiction transnationalism The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they’ve ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place...

... to exile either in Brazil or the United States. There is no mention of an “American” or “Latin American” dream here. It just happened. But while the location of Lispector’s birth may not be important, her being Jewish plays a crucial role in Moser’s sketching of her life. Being displaced...

...-speaking  Jewry (in its broadest sense and irrespective of discipline), and on behalf of Jewish national development” (13). A group of activists fought to make Yiddish (rather than Hebrew) the main form of cultural expression of a diasporic Jewish population. This attempt was at once similar...

..., ethnic and Jewish identity, narrative form, masculinity and gender studies, Holocaust studies, and American social history. Shostak suggests that R oth’s central preoccupation—if he can be said to have one at all—is subjectivity. Consequently, Shostak examines R oth’s oeuvre as a kind...

... or unconscious, just as the hysteric cannot recall the repressed that inhabits her. In The White Hotel the “unconscious” of Freudian psychoanalysis is Jewish historical pain—the traumatic and unbearable affect that constitutes the forgotten or occluded of Freud’s interpretation of Lisa in “Frau Anna G...

... of the confrontation between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis is deeply humanistic, but also that it mounts a critique of patriarchy, one that helps light the way toward an open future. First, we examine this critique, by attending carefully to the agency of the women characters, the Israeli Jewish mother Miriam...

... the implications of this choice: “Styron’s novel about a Polish Catholic woman who survived Auschwitz only to die tragically in America puts under interrogation the claim that the Holocaust was a uniquely Jewish catastrophe. Styron aims to show that some Christians (in his phrase) ‘suffered as much as any Jew...

... Anna . 2016 . “ Introduction to the New Wave of Russian Jewish American Culture .” East European Jewish Affairs 46 , no 3 : 241 – 44 . Kelertas Violeta , ed. 2006 . Baltic Postcolonialism . Amsterdam : Rodopi . Kennedy Michael D. 2002 . Cultural Formations of Post...

... of the figure of the Jew and Jewishness in such cultural expres­ sions as literary and non-literary writing, art and museum exhibitions, film, music, and theater. We expect these essays to question, challenge, and redefine the terms philosemitism and antisemitism and to complicate what...

... a critique of a dictator. By casting Robin as a representation of disturbingly proto-fascist politics, however, Spiro suggests that Barnes’s character can be understood in the larger, historical context of the rise of Nazism. In Chapter Three: “Seeing Jewish or Seeing ‘the Jew’? The Spectral...

..., and American Pastoral addresses them in relation to the myth of the American Dream and “what kind of country America really is.” African Americans, however, remain largely neglected in current scholarship of Roth’s novel. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour Irving Levov (“the Swede”), the grandson of Jewish...

....” I would argue that in American Pastoral, Roth, in the guise of his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, returns to a consideration of the sixties, but with a less satiri­ cal, more elegiac voice. At the center of American Pastoral is Swede Levov, the benevolent Jewish American liberal Roth describes...