Studies in American Jewish Literature 1993: Vol 12 Table of Contents

1 Pages·1993·0.25 MB·English

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
ARTICLES:
2 ~=Richard S. Pressman
Abraham Cahan, Capitalist; David Levinsky, Socialist
19 David Green
The Price of Success: Use of the Bildungsroman Plot in Abraham Cahan’s
The Rise of David Levinsky
25 Karen Polster
Abraham Cahan: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1970-1988
36 C. Beth Burch
Mary Antin’s The Promised Land and the Unspoken Failure of Assimilation
42 Henry Ahrens
Tale From an Archetypal Ocean: Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev
50 Victoria Aarons
“The Tune is the Language”: An Interview with Grace Paley
62 Bernice Schrank
Getting the Picture: Radical Possibilities in Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel
72 Elisabeth Sandberg
Jo Sinclair, A Gardener of Souls
79 Bonnie Lyons
The Contrasting Visions of Malamud and O’Connor
87 James Byer
God’s Grace and Bernard Malamud’s Allusions: A Study in Art and Racial
Insult
94 Lawrence M. Lasher
An Early Version of Malamud’s “the German Refugee” and Other Early
Newspaper Sketches
109 Andrew Furman
The Ineluctable Holocaust in the Fiction of Philip Roth
122 Melvin James Bukiet
Looking at Roth: or “I Always Wanted You to Admire My Hookshot”
126 Jaye Berman Montresor
Parodic Laughter and the Holocaust
134 Michael Brown
Of Maus and Men: Problems of Asserting Identity in a Post-Holocaust Age
BOOK REVIEWS
141 Sanford E. Marovitz, Kent State University: Jewish-American Fiction, 1917-
1987. By Sanford Pinsker.
143 Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Indiana University: John and Anzia: An American
Romance. By Norma Rosen.
144 Andrew Furman, Penn State University: Saul Bellow: A Mosaic.
Edited by L. H. Goldman, Gloria L. Cronin, and Ada Aharoni.
147 Andrew Furman, Penn State University: Philip Roth Revisited. By Jay L. Halio:
Understanding Philip Roth. By Murray Baumgarten and Barbara Gottfried.
149 Ann Weinstein, Dawson College, Montreal: Collected Poems, New Enlarged
Edition. By Primo Levi. Translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann.
151 Ann Weinstein, Dawson College, Montreal: For Every Sin.
By Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green.
155 Ellen Schiff, North Adams State College: The Darkness We Carry: The Drama
of the Holocaust. By Robert Skloot.