Putting the "Jewish" back in "Jewish American fiction": a look at Jewish...

Shofar;  March 22, 2004 ;   Meyer, Adam;   787 words ...ABSTRACT. The Jewish American literary renaissance of the last...the historical trajectory of Jewish American literature itself...made his famous statement that Jewish American fiction has probably moved past...

Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return...

Shofar;  March 22, 2004 ;   Lyons, Bonnie;   787 words ...Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma...American literature have placed current Jewish American writers in a double bind. On the one hand the love affair with the Jewish American novel (the popularity of Saul Bellow...

Unfinalized moments in Jewish American narrative.(Critical Essay)

Shofar;  March 22, 2004 ;   Royal, Derek Parker;   787 words ...In contemporary Jewish American fiction studies, it has become...introduction to his 1977 collection of Jewish American stories, where Howe broods over...the collection of contemporary Jewish American narrative. In one fell--yet...

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature.(Book Review)

Shofar;  January 1, 2006 ;   Avery, Evelyn;   787 words ...The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, edited by Michael P. Kramer...addressed in the Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Unfortunately, editors...and Kramer have chosen to present Jewish American literature as an incoherent coherence...

From where our new song rises: Jewish American poetry in the century past...

Shofar;  September 22, 2002 ;   Klein, Elizabeth;   787 words ......Shofar, with one exception, focus on Jewish American poetry in the twentieth century, exploring...available to all readers of English. Jewish American poetry has its roots in Yiddish immigrant...excellent introduction to the subject of Jewish American poetry, there are some topics ...

Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity....

Shofar;  September 22, 2002 ;   Scroggins, Mark;   787 words ......of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity, by Norman Finkelstein. Albany...scholar-on-the-street, asked to name some prominent Jewish American writers, will probably still come...these masterful names, is a poet? Jewish American literature, until very recently, ...

Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections.(Book Review)

Shofar;  January 1, 2005 ;   Schneider, Steven P.;   787 words ...Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections...60.00. In the Introduction to Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections...and increasingly self-conscious Jewish American poetic tradition. This tradition...

REP. SCHULTZ RECOGNIZES SECOND ANNUAL JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2007 ;     345 words ......second annual national recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, a month devoted to...cultural contributions of American Jews. Jewish American Heritage Month was proclaimed for...interactions with Jews and our traditions. Jewish American Heritage Month seeks to provide a...

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin,...

Shofar;  September 22, 2004 ;   Zierler, Wendy;   787 words ...Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin...choosing to write about four Jewish American writers only one of whom is...create a counter-paradigm of the Jewish American canon over and against such...

Jewish American Princess

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;    Tad Tuleja;   50 words ...00-00-0000 Jewish American Princess Jewish American Princess Abbreviated JAP. A wealthy young Jewish woman, used to being pampered and attended to. The term is used, with light disparagement, by Jews themselves as well as Gentiles. Leo Rosten...

And now, a book on the Jewish American Prince

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 17, 1986 ;     159 words ......Chicago's Turnbull & Willoughby publishers lampooned JAPs in The Jewish American Princess Handbook. Now, they're going after - well, who else? The brand-new Jewish American Prince Handbook is must reading for mensches with guilt-edged address...

Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American...

American Jewish History;  March 1, 2007 ;   Zierler, Wendy;   787 words ......Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Writing. Edited by Lois E...woman. In those days, the field of Jewish American literary studies was unabashedly dominated...Women Writers (1992), Ann R. Shapiro's Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical...

Maccabi signs Jewish American forward

Jerusalem Post;  July 29, 2002 ;   Jerusalem Post Staff;   157 words ...00-00-0000 Headline: Maccabi signs Jewish American forward Byline: Jerusalem Post Staff Edition; Daily Section...yesterday announced the signing of David Bluthenthal, a Jewish American who who played for the University of Southern California...

Emma Lazarus, Jewish American poetics, and the challenge of...

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;  June 1, 2003 ;   Omer-Sherman, Ranen;   787 words ......increasingly celebrated as the first Jewish American poet to produce poems of significant...late-twentieth-century scholars, Lazarus's role in Jewish American history still remains uncertain. Though...strategies. (1) By far the most influential Jewish American literary figure of the ...

Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics, and the Challenge of Modernity

Legacy;  December 31, 2002 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ......increasingly celebrated as the first Jewish American poet to produce poems of significant...late-twentieth-century scholars, Lazarus's role in Jewish American history still remains uncertain. Though...strategies.(1) By far the most influential Jewish American literary figure of the ...