After the tradition : essays on modern Jewish writing

After the tradition : essays on modern Jewish writing.

Author/creator	Alter, Robert
Format	Book and Print
Edition	[1st ed.].
Publication Info	New York : Dutton, 1969.
Description	256 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)	Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism. American literature--Jewish authors --History and criticism. Judaism and literature--United States --History. Jews--United States --Intellectual life. Jews in literature. United States--Civilization --Jewish influences.

Contents	1. Varieties of Jewish experience: Jewish dreams and nightmares -- Sentimentalizing the Jews -- The apocalyptic temper -- Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination -- Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival -- 2. Four writers: Saul Bellow: a dissent from modernism -- Bernard Malamud: Jewishness as a metaphor -- S.Y. Agnon: the alphabet of holiness -- Elie Wiesel: between hangman and victim -- 3. The Israeli scene: Confronting the Holocaust -- The Israeli novel: "The two generations" (1962) ; "Language and realism" (1966) -- The days of Ziklag: in search of a cultural past -- The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky -- Poetry in Israel.
Other forms	Also issued online.
Issued in other form	Online version: Alter, Robert. After the tradition. [1st ed.] New York, Dutton, 1969
LCCN	69012601

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PJ5017 .A4 1969	✔ Available	Place Hold