基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Publication delayed (Originally scheduled in March 2001). Contains some 330 entries on individuals, arranged alphabetically, as well as 5 introductory essays.
Full Description
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen
contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature
provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers.
Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Contents
Entries include: Allen, Woody, American-Jewish Literature, Auster, Paul ,Babel, Isaac, Bellow, Saul, Brodsky, Joseph, Castel-Bloom, Orly, Cixous, Hélène, Cohen, Leonard, Doctorow, Edgar L, Durlacher, Gerard, Dworkin, Andrea, Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigorevich, Elkin, Stanley, Ezekiel, Nissim, Fainlight, Ruth, Feiffer, Jules, Fierstein, Harvey, Gershon, Karen, Ginsberg, Allen, Gordimer, Nadine, Hebrew Literature, Heller, Joseph, Holocaust, Writing, Ignatow, David, Ionesco, Eugène, Jacob, Max, Jong, Erica, Josipovici, Gabriel, Kafka, Franz, Kertész, Imre, Konrád, György, Langer, Jiri, Levi, Primo, Lustig, Arnoöt, Mailer, Norman, Mamet, David, Miller, Arthur, Nadas, Peter, Nathanson, Henri, Nemerov, Howard, Odets, Clifford, Ortiz, Alicia, Dujovne, Oz, Amos, Paley, Grace, Pasternak, Boris, Potok, Chaim, Proust, Marcel, Raab, Esther, Roth, Philip, Rukeyser, Muriel, Sendak, Maurice, Simon, Neil, Stein, Gertrude, Tchernikowsky, Shaul, Trilling, Lionel, Tuwim, Julian, Uris, Leon, Viertel, Berthold, Vigee, Claude, Vogel, David, West, Nathanael, Wiesel, Elie, Wouk, Herman, Yehoshua, A.B., Yezierska, Anzia, Yiddish Writing in the 20th Century, Zach, Nathan, Zukofsky, Louis, Zwicky, Fay