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THE RESONANCE OF TWONESS AMBIVALENT FAITH IN AN AMBIGUOUS WORLD Daniel Walden, Editor STUDIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE Vol. 17, 1998 a INTRODUCTION Daniel Walden ARTICLES E David Brauner, University College, Scarborough, England Fiction as Self-Accusation: Philip Roth and the Jewish Other ............. 8 . Joanna Barkess, University of Hull Painting The Sitra Achra: Culture Confrontation in Chaim Potok’s PRAM REM IINGAW EES ren wine "9:5 ca e) bra a8 ok aie ae So tab olin Beas wed eae aig wD GIR Seis 17 . Lois Rubin, Penn State University, New Kensington Nessa Rapoport’s Preparing for Sabbath: A Jewish Coming of Age ........ 25 Dan Shiffman, Idaho State University The Loss of the Schlemiel in Daniel Fuchs’s Wiiliamsburg Trilogy ........31 . James D. Bloom, Mukienberg College For the Yankee Dead: Mukherjee, Roth, and the Diasporan Seizure of New England . Ken Wishnia, Queens College, CUNY Jacob Gordin’s “Moses, Jesus Christ and Karl Marx Visit New York:” Yiddish in Amerike . Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston Renouncing “The World’s Business” in Seize The Day . Rosie Rosenzweig, Wayland, MA Marge Piercy’s Jewish Feminism: A Paradigm Shift ................... 82 . Michael Tavel Clarke, University of lowa Mary McCarthy’s Memories: Narrative as Jewish Autobiography . Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Universite de Poitiers, France “A Lost Grave” by Bernard Malamud: Ambiguity as Topos............. 103 . Meg McAnn, Elizabeth, NJ Milena Jesenska: The Power of Friendship . Frank Ardolino, University of Hawaii Miller’s Poetic Use of Demotic English in Death of a Salesman . Bonnie Lyons, University of Texas, San Antonio The Female Characters in Bernard Malamud’s Stories ................. 129 NOTES: i. Leslie Fishbein, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Anzia Yezierska: The Sweatshop Cinderella and the Invented Life . Anna Petrov, Penn State University Fear of a Dominant Male in Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep and Beaarer WEsiatNe SCP) SORES 6 5.5) 5 oes Soo eid esi cate a aioeraeeuaet 142 . Dan Vogel, Jerusalem, Israel (Michlalah-Jerusalem College, retired) Concerning Mark Twain’s Jews BOOK REVIEWS: L. Bonnie Lyons, University of Texas at San Antonio Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub, eds. Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 536 pp. . $85.00 . Daniel Walden, Penn State University Alan Berger, The Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust. Albany, New York: Suny Press, 1997. 190 pp. + 51 pp. of Notes and Index, Paperback, $19.95 . Lois Rubin, Penn State University, New Kensington America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Writers, Joyce antler, Ed