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Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs
- Title
- Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs / Donald Weber.
- Author
- Weber, Donald, 1951-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 250 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Jewish literature and culture
- Subjects
- Jews in popular culture > United States
- Americanization
- Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States
- Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects
- Jews in the performing arts > United States
- American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Popular culture > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Jews > United States > Identity
- Jews in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : adjusting to America -- Outsider in the old world, greenhorn in the new : Christopher Newman and David Levinsky -- Gastronomic nostalgia : Anzia Yezierska -- The claims of descent : immigrant cinema -- Haunted in the new world : Henry Roth -- To make "a Jew" : projecting antisemitism in post-war America -- Memory and repression : Goldberg variations -- The "Jewish opera" : Saul Bellow and other Jewish sons -- Epilogue : nostalgia and 1950s popular culture.
- Call Number
- *PXY 05-1311
- ISBN
- 0253345790 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004023618
- OCLC
- 56733135
- Author
- Weber, Donald, 1951-
- Title
- Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs / Donald Weber.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
- Series
- Jewish literature and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
- Local Note
- Ania R. Hoptman Memorial Fund for Jewish Literature.
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- Research Call Number
- *PXY 05-1311