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Title:

Modern Jewish women writers in America / edited with an introduction by Evelyn Avery.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Jewish women--United States--Intellectual life.
Jews--United States.
Jewish women in literature.
Jews in literature.
Joden.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Amerikaans.

Other Authors:

Avery, Evelyn Gross, 1940-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-264) and index.

Contents:

Rethinking Mary Antin and The promised land / Jules Chametzky -- Between two worlds--Anzia Yezierska: longing for the new, bound to the old / Evelyn Avery -- Edna Ferber, Jewish American writer: Who knew? / Eileen H. Watts -- "My own design": finding identity in Anne Roiphe's writings / Melanie Levinson -- Conversation with Johanna Kaplan / Nahma Sandrow -- Johanna Kaplan and the freedom of attachment / Carol Iannone -- Norma Rosen's Jewish journey / Ann Shapiro -- Cynthia Ozick's Puttermesser papers: from whimsy to wisdom / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Rebecca Goldstein: tension and ambivalence / Anna P. Ronell -- Kei'tsad Mirakdim Lifnei HaKalah: how do you dance before the bride? / Miriyam Glazer -- Anxieties in the "modern context": fantasies of change in Allegra Goodman's fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Failed conquests: Jews and Germans in fictions and memoirs by American Jewish women / Susanne Klingenstein -- "Writing between worlds" / Tova Mirvis -- On being modern and Orthodox: a conversation with Tova Mirvis / Evelyn Avery -- Select annotated bibliography of contemporary Jewish American women writers / Eileen H. Watts.

ISBN:

9781403977991 (alk. paper)
1403977992 (alk. paper)
9781403978042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1403978042 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007061462

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)