Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

Ten contemporary plays that dramatize the volatile relationships between Blacks and Jews in American society.

Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers’ guide with questions for writing and discussion groups.

Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama.

Explores the comic devices Roth uses to satirize his times, the Jewish community, and himself.

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.

Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.

Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.

A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.

Offers personal recollections of and critical perspectives on this major American author.

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.

Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.

Explores the complex ways in which Blacks and Jews have portrayed each other in recent American literature.

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.

Tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s--the choices they made, and the boundaries within which they made them.

Recounts the author’s experiences during the Holocaust, from the time of the Nazi invasion of Poland to the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.

An original contribution to Holocaust studies that demonstrates the theological and psychosocial issues emerging in novels and films by sons and daughters of survivors.