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Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 / Andrew Furman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culturePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585091188
  • 9780585091181
  • 9780791432518
  • 0791432513
  • 9780791432525
  • 0791432521
  • 1438403518
  • 9781438403519
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Israel through the Jewish-American imagination.DDC classification:
  • 813/.509325694/089924 20
LOC classification:
  • PS153.J4 F87 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Israel, the foremost preoccupation of the American Jew -- Meyer Levin against the grain: A Zionist writer takes on America's pre-Zionist Zeitgeist -- Embattled uris: A look back at Exodus -- Saul Bellow's Middle East problem -- Hugh Nissenson's Israel: In search of a viable Jewish ethos in Israel -- Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic complications, and current crises -- Philip Roth's nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the post-colonial critique -- Anne Roiphe's angst: A Jewish-American feminist looks at Israel -- Tova Rich's daring vision; or, the feminization of Israel's penitent -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.

Introduction: Israel, the foremost preoccupation of the American Jew -- Meyer Levin against the grain: A Zionist writer takes on America's pre-Zionist Zeitgeist -- Embattled uris: A look back at Exodus -- Saul Bellow's Middle East problem -- Hugh Nissenson's Israel: In search of a viable Jewish ethos in Israel -- Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic complications, and current crises -- Philip Roth's nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the post-colonial critique -- Anne Roiphe's angst: A Jewish-American feminist looks at Israel -- Tova Rich's daring vision; or, the feminization of Israel's penitent -- Conclusion.

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