American Jewish Fiction: A Century of StoriesGerald Shapiro U of Nebraska Press, 1998 M01 1 - 445 pages This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers. To read through its pages is to encounter a remarkable?and remarkably diverse?literary tradition. The volume opens with stories by two important immigrant writers from the early twentieth century, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska. There follows a generous selection of modern Jewish American stories by such celebrated authors as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth. The collection concludes with a rich sampling of stories by contemporary writers whose works illustrate the impressive variety and vitality of recent Jewish American fiction. Equally suited to scholars, students, and general readers, American Jewish Fiction provides an invaluable survey of literary works that have enriched and transformed American?and world?literature. |
Contents
Abraham Cahan A Ghetto Wedding | 1 |
Anzia Yezierska How I Found America | 15 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer A Wedding in Brownsville | 38 |
Tillie Olsen Tell Me a Riddle | 51 |
Delmore Schwartz In Dreams Begin Responsibilities | 86 |
Bernard Malamud The Lady of the Lake | 94 |
Saul Bellow A Silver Dish | 115 |
Grace Paley Goodbye and Good Luck | 142 |
Bruce Jay Friedman When Youre Excused Youre Excused | 251 |
Philip Roth On the Air | 262 |
Francine Prose Electricity | 300 |
Steve Stern The Tale of a Kite | 320 |
Melvin Jules Bukiet The Library of Moloch | 335 |
Lev Raphael History with Dreams | 346 |
Michelle Herman Auslander | 360 |
Robin Hemley The 19th Jew | 388 |
Norma Rosen What Must I Say to You? | 152 |
Wallace Markfield The Decline of Sholem Waldman | 163 |
Cynthia Ozick Envy or Yiddish in America | 174 |
Broner Ghost Stories | 223 |
Stanley Elkin Among the Witnesses | 230 |
Helen Schulman The Revisionist | 410 |
Allegra Goodman Sarah | 424 |
Acknowledgments | 443 |
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Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic ... David Brauner No preview available - 2001 |