Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American literature : Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth / Ranen Omer-Sherman.

Author/creator Omer-Sherman, Ranen
Format Book
Publication InfoHanover : University Press of New England, ©2002.
Descriptionxiii, 341 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887--Criticism and interpretation.
Syrkin, Marie, 1899-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
Roth, Philip, 1933-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
Jewish literature--History and criticism.
Zionism in literature.
Jewish diaspora in literature.

SeriesBrandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life. ^A302188
Contents "Thy people are my people": Emma Lazarus, Zion, and Jewish modernity in the 1880s -- "It will not be the saving remnant": Marie Syrkin and post-Holocaust politics of Jewish American identity -- Convivencia, hybridity, and the Jewish urban modernist -- "Palestine was a halting place, one of many": Diasporism in Charles Reznikoff's Nine Plays and beyond -- "No coherence": Philip Roth's lamentations for diaspora -- "A stranger in the house": assimilation, madness, and passing in Roth's figure of the pariah Jew in Sabbath's Theater (1995), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.
LCCN 2001005972
ISBN1584652020 (pbk.)
ISBN1584652012 (cloth)

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