Includes bibliographical references and index
""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""CHRONOLOGY""; ""Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""1 Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""2 Imagining Judaism in America""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""3 Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""
""4 Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination""""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""5 Hebrew literature in America""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""6 Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""7 Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture""; ""REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""8 Jewish American poetry""; ""Introduction""; ""Yiddish-in-America""; ""Jewish American modernism�with special reference to the Objectivists""
""The middle generation: Muriel Rukeyser and Karl Shapiro""""Family matters: Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich""; ""The poem in the eye, the poem in the ear: the experimental poetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Irena Klepfisz""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""9 Jewish American writers on the Left""; ""The appeal of the Left""; ""The Jewish presence""; ""Genres of the Left""; ""Jewish American women""; ""African Americans and Jewish Americans""; ""Anti-fascism""; ""Ambivalent legacy""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""10 Jewish American renaissance""
""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""""11 The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""12 Jewish American women writers and the race question""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""13 On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""; ""14 Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing""; ""Religious practice, belief, and ritual""; ""Place, nationality, exile, and home""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS""
Hana Wirth-Nesher,: Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making
Michael P. Kramer: Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history
Susannah Heschel: Imagining Judaism in America
Priscilla Wald: Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants
David G. Roskies: Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination
Alan Mintz: Hebrew literature in America
Hana Wirth-Nesher: Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing
Donald Weber: Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture
Maeera Y. Shreiber: Jewish American poetry
Alan Wald: Jewish American writers on the left
Ruth R. Wisse: Jewish American Renaissance
Emily Miller Budick: Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination
Susan Gubar: Jewish American women writers and the race question
Shira Wolosky: On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics
Tresa Grauer.: Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing
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