The Conversion of the Jews and Other Essays
Published in November 1990
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-333-48589-7 (ISBN)
Description
An excursion into the heart of the Jewish imagination and its expression in American letters in our time, this book looks at the areas of politics and literature that engaged the Jewish writers and intellectuals of the post-war decades. The book continues in the same vein as the author's previous book, "After the Revolution: Studies of the Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination". The author has also written "Joyce in Nighttown: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into James Joyce's 'Ulysses'" and "Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-48589-7 (9780333485897)
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Content
The conversion of the Jews; Isaac Rosenfeld's Passage; Saul Bellow and ghetto cosmopolitanism; Jewish comedy and the contradictions of culture; Allen Ginsberg's survival; Bernard Malamud and the return of the repressed; Malamud - the still, sad music; a portrait of Delmore; Zuckerman's travels; where's papa?; the truants; gates of Eden; elusive trilling; criticism and culture; in defense of the imagination; the partisan; ambition and the American scholar; three honest men; an American procession; the last Trotskyist.