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Who is a Jew? What is a Jew? In this all-encompassing study, Dr. Schiff probes these questions to help explain the prominence of Jewish characters in drama since World War II. The Jew has evolved into one of the most popular personages on the contemporary stage. Dramatists, both Jew and Gentile, in the United States and Europe, have been mining recently introduced concepts of the Jew to create a highly diversified and unfamiliar breed of dramatis...
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In Abraham Cahan, Sanford E. Marovitz relates in telling detail Cahan's rise from green newspaperman to discriminating novelist and shrewd editor of the daily Yiddish Forward. After a difficult start, Cahan, a founder of the Forward, edited the paper for nearly 50 years, bringing its circulation to an impressive quarter million during its heyday in the early 1920s. An ardent advocate of assimilation, Cahan saw the Forward as a means of acculturating...
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"This collection of essays is aimed at students working on The Merchant of Venice who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most controversial play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers an exciting selection of the more recent writings on the play that opens up its historical, cultural, and political significance, and serves to demonstrate some of the ways in which contemporary criticism...
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Consists of two parts - J. Blum, "Soviet Russian Literature" (pp. 1-97, trans. from the Russian ms.) and V. Rich, "Jewish Themes and Characters in Belorussian Texts" (pp. 99-271). In Blum's study, two sections are devoted to antisemitism: "The Depiction of Soviet Antisemitism in Works Concerning the Second World War" (pp. 50-53) and "Nazi Antisemitism in Soviet Literature" (pp. 53-55). Includes discussion of the Soviet anti-Zionist campaign of the...
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Harold Bloom's introduction centers upon Shylock's problematical forced conversion to Christianity by Venetian justice, and his muted reaction to this outrage. Short critical extracts on Shylock follow, beginning with major figures such as August Wilhelm von Schlegel and including Victor Hugo and W.H. Auden. The second section reprints lengthier critical essays. Barbara K. Lewalski examines the Biblical aspects of Shylock; Graham Midgley finds Shylock...
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Drawing on fiction, poetry, drama, and critical essays, The Literature of American Jews is a testimony to the rich literary expression of Jewish Americans - its birth in the migration of Eastern Europeans, its later record of that immigrant experience, and its remarkable flowering after World War II.
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