Format:
1 online resource (235 pages)
ISBN:
9780791496442
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Content:
Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- Introduction: Jewish Existence -- Covenant Transformations -- Covenant and Modernity -- The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis -- Literary Response to Covenant Crisis -- American Judaism and the Holocaust -- Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists -- Holocaust As Watershed -- Holocaust Problematics -- Theological Responses -- Theology and Literature -- Is the Holocaust Beyond Artistic Expression? -- Who Should Write of the Holocaust? -- Trivializing the Holocaust -- American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique -- The Role of the American Jewish Novelist -- Holocaust Responses I:Judaism As A Religious Value System -- The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry -- Hasidic Tales -- Considering the Evidence -- Arthur A. Cohen -- Cynthia Ozick -- Hugh Nissenson -- Elie Wiesel -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Holocaust Responses II:Judaism As A Secular Value System -- Considering the Evidence -- Bernard Malamud -- Saul Bellow -- Susan F. Schaeffer -- Cynthia Ozick -- PRE-HOLOCAUST AMERICA: JEWISH EXISTENCE AND COVENANT DIMINISHMENT -- Hugh Nissenson -- Robert Kotlowitz -- Conclusion -- Holocaust Responses III:Symbolic Judaism -- Considering The Evidence -- Philip Roth -- Richard Elman -- Edward Lewis Wallant -- Norma Rosen -- Bernard Malamud -- Conclusion -- Holocaust And Covenant -- The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism -- Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu -- Problems and Possibilities -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780887060854
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780887060854
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3408132
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