Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Title | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Furman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780585091181 |
Examines eight Jewish-American writers -- Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich -- who have "imagined" Israel in their work. Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on lsrael, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one of more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Title | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Furman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | American fiction |
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Israel Through the Eyes of Jewish-American Imagination
Title | Israel Through the Eyes of Jewish-American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Scott Furman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1997 |
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Israel Through the Jewish American Imagination
Title | Israel Through the Jewish American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Furman |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780791432518 |
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Title | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Furman |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438403518 |
CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.
Doubting the Devout
Title | Doubting the Devout PDF eBook |
Author | Nora L Rubel |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2009-12-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231512589 |
Before 1985, depictions of ultra-Orthodox Jews in popular American culture were rare, and if they did appear, in films such as Fiddler on the Roof or within the novels of Chaim Potok, they evoked a nostalgic vision of Old World tradition. Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra-Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews, one that has found a particularly creative voice in literature, media, and film. Unpacking the work of Allegra Goodman, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Erich Segal, Anne Roiphe, and others, as well as television shows and films such as A Price Above Rubies, Nora L. Rubel investigates the choices non-haredi Jews have made as they represent the character and characters of ultra-Orthodox Jews. In these artistic and aesthetic acts, Rubel recasts the war over gender and family and the anxieties over acculturation, Americanization, and continuity. More than just a study of Jewishness and Jewish self-consciousness, Doubting the Devout will speak to any reader who has struggled to balance religion, family, and culture.
Zion in the Desert
Title | Zion in the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0791480062 |