Using early Jewish American literature to teach about race / Laura Arnold Leibman -- Expanding the Jewish American literary canon for Hebrew day school students / Louis Gordon -- Teaching Jewish American literature with an anthology / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Dismantling Christian readings of Jewish American literature in the Christian college : A.M. Klein's The second scroll / Lucas Wilson -- The sense of bashert : contingency in Dara Horn's The world to come and Nicole Krauss's History of love / Lori Hope Lefkovitz -- Jewish American literature and the multicultural canon / Dean Franco -- Team-teaching Jewish and Caribbean immigrant literature to diverse students in a state university / Meri-Jane Rochelson and Donna Aza Weir-Soley -- Teaching Black-Jewish literary relations in transnational perspective / Sarah Phillips Casteel -- Teaching Jewish American children's and young adult literature / Jodi Eichler-Levine -- Teaching with things : the clutter of Russian Jewish American literature / Sasha Senderovich -- Teaching a Jewish and Arab American literary collaboration in Iraq / Nadia Fayidh Mohammed -- Unsettling the linguistic and geographical borders of Jewish American literature: Régine Robin's La Québécoite / Justin Cammy -- Jews beyond America : the one and the many / Ilan Stavans -- American poetry, Jewish prayer, world literature / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Beyond English : language, sound, and voice in Jewish American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Postvernacular Ladino: chameleon languages and translation studies / Joanna Meadvin and Katharine G. Trostel -- Sephardic writing of the United States in a comparative, trans-American, and transatlantic frame / Dalia Kandiyoti -- Writing new kinds of Jews : a course in literary genetics and masculinity / Yaron Peleg -- Gender, genre, and lesbian identity in four modernist Jewish texts / Corinne E. Blackmer -- Teaching Jewish American women's writing / Judith Lewin -- Poetic pedagogies : teaching Irena Klepfisz in Israel/Palestine / Zohar Weiman-Kelman -- Jews, gender, and comix / Peter Antelyes -- Teaching Angels in America in the twenty-first century : memory, mourning, and meaning / Linda Schlossberg -- Musical theater as literature : art and identity that thrive on change / Judah M. Cohen -- Serious fun : teaching Jewish American humor / Jennifer Caplan -- Digital Jews : questioning borders in Jewish American literature / Laini Kavaloski -- After the Golem : teaching Golems, Kabbalah, exile, imagination, and technological take-over / Temma Berg -- Teaching contemporary Jewish American Holocaust literature: memory, "fatigue," and narratives of post-Holocaust return / Jennifer Lemberg -- The surprising versatility of Israel Zangwill's The melting pot / Karen E. H. Skinazi and Lori Harrison-Kahan -- Teaching Abraham Cahan's Yekl as a comedy of arrival and dislocation / John Wharton Lowe -- Displacement and identity in the work of Anzia Yezierska and Helena Maria Viramontes / Judith R. Phagan -- Teaching Anzia Yezierska's Bread givers in Australia / Sarah Gleeson-White and Lucas Thompson -- Anzia Yezierska and the changing fortunes of Jewishness / Catherine Rottenberg -- Four approaches to teaching "Goodbye, Columbus" / Josh Lambert, Rachel Gordan, Benjamin Schreier, Bettina Hofmann, and Julian Levinson.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Jewish American fiction, poetry, drama, graphic novels, children's literature, and digital texts, including considerations of religious and secular Jewish culture, race and multicultural contexts, immigration, the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, multilingual literary traditions, and humor. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses"-- Provided by publisher.
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