The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

Michael P. Kramer is Professor in the Department of English at Bar Ilan University. He has written widely on Jewish American literature and he is the editor of New Essays on Seize the Day (1998). Hana Wirth-Nesher is Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience and Professor of English, Tel Aviv University. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel.

• Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer; 1. Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer; 2. Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel; 3. The East European immigrants Priscilla Wald; 4. Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies; 5. Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz; 6. Multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher; 7. Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber; 8. Jewish American poetry Maeera Shreiber; 9. Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald; 10. Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse; 11. The Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick; 12. Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar; 13. Contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky; 14. Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer.

'… some exceptional essays in the collection …'. The Times Literary Supplement