Modern Jewish Women Writers in America

Evelyn Avery is Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Towson University.

• PART I: THE EARLY YEARS - IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: 1910-1950s * Re-Thinking Mary Antin and The Promised Land - Jules Chametzky * Anzia Yezierska: Between Two Worlds; Bound to the Old, Longing for the New - Evelyn Avery * Edna Ferber, Jewish American Writer: Who Knew? - Eileen Watts * PART II:THE ROADS DIVERGE  - ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1960s-1990s * “My Own Design”: Finding Identity in Anne Roiphe’s Writing - Melanie Levinson * Johanna Kaplan: The Author and Her Fiction - Nahma Sandrow and Carol Iannone * Norma Rosen’s Jewish Journey - Anne Shapiro * PART III: THE COVENANT CONFIRMED?: 1990s-2000  * Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom - Sarah Blacher Cohen * Rebecca Goldstein: Tension and Ambivalence - Anna P. Ronell * Dancing Before the Bride: An Autobiography - Miriyam Glazer * Fantasies of Change in Allegra Goodman’s Fiction - Victoria Aarons *  PART IV: INTRO INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PENDULUM SWINGS * In Hitler’s Embrace: “Love”  between Jews and Germans in Binnie Kirschenbaum’s Fiction - Susanne Klingenstein * “Writing Between Worlds” - Tova Mirvis * Across the Generations: A Conversation - Evelyn Avery & Tova Mirvis * Annotated Select Bibliography, Jewish American Women Authors - Eileen Watts

'This beautifully written collection offers a welcome overview of Jewish women writers and their heritage.' - Elaine B. Safer, Professor of English, University of Delaware "The articles in this collection are superb and well situated with a splendid and original introduction by Avery. This is a strong contribution to the fields of Jewish Literature, Jewish American literature, women's studies and Jewish women's literature." - Dan Walden, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English and Comp.Lit., Penn State University; Editor, Studies in American Jewish Literature 'The scholars assembled in this collection are all cogent, effective writers. It was a pleasure to read this volume since the contributors understand the direction that much of Jewish-American literature is taking namely, to a deeper understandingof Jewish history, to Jewish languages (mainly Hebrew), to tradition in general, and to Jewish observance in particular.' - Sanford Pinsker, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Franklin and Marshall College