Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity 23
6. Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation 45
7. The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer 57
8. Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back 79
9. Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self 95
10. Magnified and Sanctified: Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature 115
11. Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture 131
12. The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home 147
13. The Conversion of the Jews and Other Narratives of Self-Definition: Notes Toward the Writing of Jewish American Literary History; or, Adventures in Hebrew School 177
14. The Mrican American and Israeli “Other” in the Construction of Jewish American Identity 197
15. Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern? On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language 213
16. Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity 235
17. German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked 259
18. Contributors 275
19. Index 279