Modern Jewish Women Writers in America [Hardcover]

This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.PART I: THE EARLY YEARS - IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: 1910-1950s * Re-Thinking Mary Antin and The Promised Land - Jules Chametzky?* Anzia Yezierska:?Between Two Worlds; Bound to the Old, Longing for the New - Evelyn Avery *?Edna Ferber, Jewish American Writer: Who Knew? - Eileen Watts?* PART II:THE ROADS DIVERGE? - ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1960s-1990s *?My Own Design: Finding Identity in Anne Roiphes Writing - Melanie Levinson *?Johanna Kaplan: The Author and Her Fiction - Nahma Sandrow and Carol?Iannone * Norma Rosens Jewish Journey - Anne Shapiro * PART III: THE COVENANT CONFIRMED?: 1990s-2000 ?* Cynthia Ozicks Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom - Sarah Blacher Cohen * Rebecca Goldstein: Tension and Ambivalence - Anna P. Ronell?* Dancing Before the Bride: An Autobiography - Miriyam Glazer * Fantasies of Change in Allegra Goodmans Fiction - Victoria Aarons *? PART IV: INTRO INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PENDULUM SWINGS *?In Hitlers Embrace: Love? between Jews and Germans in Binnie Kirschenbaums Fiction - Susanne Klingenstein * Writing Between Worlds - Tova Mirvis * Across the Generations: A Conversation - Evelyn Avery?& Tova Mirvis * Annotated Select Bibliography, Jewish American Women Authors - Eileen Watts

'This beautifully written collection offers a welcome overview of Jewish women writers and their heritage.' - Elaine B. Safer, Professor of English, University of Delaware

The articles in this collection are superb and well situated with a splendid and original introduction by Avery. This is a strong contribution to the fields of Jewish Literature, Jewish American literature, women's studies and Jewish women's literature. - Dan Wal–