These books collect the voices from Jewish American writers like Tillie Olsen, Allen Ginsberg, and Cynthia Ozick. Find resources related to fiction, poetry, drama, essays, journals, autobiography, and more.
1. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
by Jules Chametzky (Editor), Kathryn Hellerstein (Editor), Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor), and John Felstiner (Editor). Norton. From the publisher: "This rich anthology reconsiders Jewish American literature from its seventeenth-century origins to its flourishing present. It gathers the work of 145 writers in all genres—fiction, poetry, drama, essays, journals, autobiography..."
2. Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American
by Louis Harap, American Jewish Archives. Greenwood Publishing Group. From the publisher: "Around the turn of the century, the United States was still experiencing the mass migration of millions of Jews and other immigrants escaping oppression and poverty in Europe."
3. Handbook of American-Jewish Literature
by Lewis Fried (Editor), Jules Chametzky (Editor), Gene Brown (Editor), Louis Harap (Editor). Greenwood Publishing Group. This anthology collects 13 essays on American-Jewish literary culture, with bibliographic resources, and more.4. A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore
by Josepha Sherman. August House Publishers. The struggle and triumph of Jewishness, author Josepha Sherman observes, "is reflected in the vast body of Jewish folklore, which emphasizes ethical behavior and survival through cleverness, kindness, and above all, humor."5. Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal
by Janet H. Burstein. University of Illinois Press. From the publisher: "Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters contains thematically organized chapters, each discussing the literary works of several 'daughters.' Whereas early immigrant daughters translated their mothers' behavior into the vernacular of their own American experiences, some later daughters attempted to sever connections..."6. Writing Their Nations : The Tradition of 19th-Century American Jewish
by Diane Marilyn Lichtenstein. Indiana University Press. From the publisher: "The unique literary tradition of nineteenth-century American Jewish women has been largely ignored. In Writing Their Nations, Diane Lichtenstein considers more than twenty-five of these authors, including Emma Lazarus, Rebekah Hyneman, Penina Moise, and Emma Wolf."7. A Measure of Memory : Storytelling & Identity in American Jewish
by Victoria Aarons. University of Georgia Press. From the publisher: "Aarons demonstrates how, in telling their personal histories, characters in American Jewish fiction bear witness to the survival - if only in memory - of a community. Their stories speak to a shared defeat and achievement and thus to a shared but evolving cultural ethos."8. Dramatic Encounters: The Jewish Presence
by Louis Harap, American Jewish Archives. Greenwood Publishing Group. From the publisher: "This volume, the final one in a three-part series on the Jewish presence in American literature, first examines the special literary relationship of Blacks and Jews as exemplified in the writings of the two groups."9. With All My Heart, with All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing up
by Sandy Asher (Editor), Marc Chagall (Editor). Simon & Schuster. From the publisher: "An anthology of original short stories about Jews coming of age by thirteen well-known Jewish authors. Each story is followed by an interview with the author."10. Bread Givers
by Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-Harris (Foreword). Persea Books. The classic novel of Jewish immigrants in new trade paperback format and design, with sixteen period photographs.
