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American Jewish Fiction : A JPS Guide.
Title:
American Jewish Fiction : A JPS Guide.
Author:
Lambert, Josh.
ISBN:
9780827610026
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Series:
JPS Guides
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Differences -- 2 As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story -- 3 Other Things Being Equal -- 4 Joseph Zalmonah -- 5 Yekl and The Imported Bridegroomand Other Stories of the New York Ghetto -- 6 Children of Men -- 7 Q.E.D. -- 8 Motl, the Cantor's Son -- 9 The Tether -- 10 The Rise of David Levinsky -- 11 The Chosen People -- 12 Fanny Herself -- 13 Salome of the Tenements -- 14 Haunch, Paunch and Jowl -- 15 Bread Givers -- 16 Amerika -- 17 The Island Within -- 18 Arnold Levenberg -- 19 Singermann -- 20 Bottom Dogs -- 21 Jews without Money -- 22 By the Waters of Manhattan -- 23 Thicker Than Water -- 24 Miss Lonelyhearts andThe Day of the Locust -- 25 Call It Sleep -- 26 Summer in Williamsburg,Homage to Blenholt, and Low Company -- 27 The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N -- 28 I Can Get It for You Wholesale -- 29 Tomorrow's Bread -- 30 As a Driven Leaf -- 31 What Makes Sammy Run? -- 32 Jewish Cowboy [Der Yidisher Kauboy] -- 33 The Family Carnovsky -- 34 Focus -- 35 Passage from Home -- 36 Wasteland -- 37 East River -- 38 The Amboy Dukes -- 39 My Glorious Brothers -- 40 The Naked and the Dead -- 41 The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories -- 42 A Stone for Danny Fisher -- 43 The Adventures of Augie March -- 44 Blessed Is the Land -- 45 Marjorie Morningstar -- 46 Compulsion -- 47 Remember Me to God -- 48 The Assistant -- 49 Shadows on the Hudson -- 50 Exodus -- 51 Goodbye, Columbus and Five Stories -- 52 The Pawnbroker -- 53 Tell Me a Riddle -- 54 Stern -- 55 Herzog -- 56 To an Early Grave -- 57 Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late -- 58 Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers -- 59 The Last Jew in America -- 60 Green: A Novella and Eight Stories -- 61 Tsemakh Atlas/The Yeshiva -- 62 Waiting for the News -- 63 Portnoy's Complaint.

64 Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret -- 65 Bech, a Book -- 66 The Book of Daniel -- 67 Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse -- 68 Jacob's Son -- 69 The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories -- 70 Edwin Mullhouse: The Life andDeath of an American Writer,1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright -- 71 My Name Is Asher Lev -- 72 In the Days of Simon Stern -- 73 Fear of Flying -- 74 A Star in the Family -- 75 My Own Ground -- 76 Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventuresof Marshall Pearl, a Foundling -- 77 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories -- 78 A Weave of Women -- 79 A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories -- 80 Good as Gold -- 81 O My America! -- 82 The Mind-Body Problem -- 83 Hungry Hearts -- 84 Disturbances in the Field -- 85 Heartburn -- 86 Mainland -- 87 Her First American -- 88 Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven -- 89 The Ritual Bath -- 90 The Shawl -- 91 The Great Letter E -- 92 He, She, and It -- 93 Operation Shylock: A Confession -- 94 The Prince of West End Avenue -- 95 The Collected Stories -- 96 Mr. Vertigo -- 97 A Disturbance in One Place -- 98 The Romance Reader -- 99 While the Messiah Tarries -- 100 Tales Out of School -- 101 Mona in the Promised Land -- 102 The Complete Stories -- 103 The Puttermesser Papers -- 104 American Pastoral -- 105 Like Never Before -- 106 Paradise, New York -- 107 The Jew of New York -- 108 For the Relief of Unbearable Urges -- 109 The Ladies Auxiliary -- 110 Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith -- 111 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- 112 Bee Season -- 113 Days of Awe -- 114 Paradise Park -- 115 Everything Is Illuminated -- 116 The Russian Debutante's Handbook -- 117 Old School -- 118 San Remo Drive -- 119 The First Desire -- 120 Joy Comes in the Morning -- 121 Collected Stories -- 122 The World to Come -- 123 The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- 124 The Collected Stories.

123. The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- 124. The Collected Stories -- 125. Petropolis -- Appendixes -- Index by Author -- Index by Title -- Index by Subject.
Abstract:
This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader's dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers' interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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