Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s

by Louis Harap

Overview

Around the turban of the century, the United States was still experiencing the mass migration of millions of Jews and other immigrants escaping oppression and poverty in Europe. Set against this historical backdrop, author Louis Harap examines the development of the Jewish American, as both writer and character, from 1900 to the 1950s. Creative Awakening traces fifty years' development of Jewish American fiction, poetry and humor, as it analyzes fictional portrayals of Jews themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313253867
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/18/1987
Series:	Contributions in Ethnic Studies , #17
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

LOUIS HARAP, former editor of Jewish Life, is currently on the editorial board of Jewish Currents.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Leonard W. Dobb
Foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus
Preface
Introduction
The Apprentice Years: 1900-1919
Fiction of the 1920s
The Depression Years: The 1930s
The Jew at War: The 1940s
Jewish Anti-Semitism: The Problem of Self-Hate
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Index