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Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture
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ISBN: 9780253350817 0253350816 9786611785666 1281785660 0253000289 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture -- in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman -- led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews. Discussing the lives and work of writers such as Emma Lazarus, Mary Antin, Ludwig Lewisohn, Waldo Frank, Anzia Yezierska, I. J. Schwartz, Alfred Kazin, and

Growing up ethnic
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ISBN: 0877459231 1587295946 9781587295942 9780877459231 Year: 2005 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both African American and Jewish American authors have conceptualized their ""ethnic situation."" The issue of ""race"" and its social repercussions certainly defy any easy comparisons. However, the fact that the ethnic situations are far from identical in the

Crossing cultures : creating identity in Chinese and Jewish American literature
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ISBN: 082621486X 9780826214867 0826264492 9780826264497 Year: 2003 Publisher: Columbia (Mo.): University of Missouri

To be suddenly white
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ISBN: 0826264859 9780826264855 9780826216199 0826216196 Year: 2006 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and "white" ethnic (Jewish-American and Italian-American) narratives by Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and Guido d'Agostino"--Provided by publisher.

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American prose literature --- Minorities --- African Americans --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Race awareness in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Autobiography. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Technique --- United States --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Realism in literature --- Race in literature --- Human skin color --- In literature --- Race awareness in literature --- Group identity in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Howells, William Dean --- Criticism and interpretation --- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins --- Cahan, Abraham --- Lewisohn, Ludwig --- Ornitz, Samuel --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Schuyler, George Samuel --- Antin, Mary --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Barolini, Helen --- White, Walter Francis --- Fauset, Jessie Redmon --- Larsen, Nella --- Cautela, Giuseppe --- D'Agostino, Guido --- Ets, Marie Hall


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The Salome Ensemble : Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal
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ISBN: 9780815653653 0815653654 9780815634423 0815634420 9780815610656 0815610653 Year: 2016 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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New York (N.Y.) --- Women immigrants --- Jewish women artists --- Arts, American --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Jewish artists --- Women artists --- American arts --- Intellectual life --- Goudal, Jetta, --- Levien, Sonya, --- Yezierska, Anzia, --- Stokes, Rose Pastor, --- Goudeket, Henriette, --- Goudeket, Julie Henriette, --- Hovey, Sonya, --- Opesken, Sara, --- Stokes, Rose Pastor Wieslander, --- Wieslander, Rose Harriet, --- New York (City) --- Ni︠u︡ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Novi Jork (N.Y.) --- Nova Iorque (N.Y.) --- Nyu-Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nu Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nyuyok (N.Y.) --- Nuyorḳ (N.Y.) --- New York City (N.Y.) --- Niyū Yūrk (N.Y.) --- Niyūyūrk (N.Y.) --- Niu-yüeh (N.Y.) --- Nowy Jork (N.Y.) --- City of New York (N.Y.) --- New York Stad (N.Y.) --- نيويورك (N.Y.) --- Táva Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nyu-York Şähäri (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк (N.Y.) --- Горад Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Horad Nʹi︠u︡-I︠O︡rk (N.Y.) --- Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Ню Йорк (N.Y.) --- Nova York (N.Y.) --- Çĕнĕ Йорк (N.Y.) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Dakbayan sa New York (N.Y.) --- Dinas Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick Schtadt (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick (N.Y.) --- Νέα Υόρκη (N.Y.) --- Nea Yorkē (N.Y.) --- Ciudad de Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Novjorko (N.Y.) --- Nouvelle York (N.Y.) --- Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Cathair Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Caayr York Noa (N.Y.) --- York Noa (N.Y.) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Baile Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Нью Йорк балhсн (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡ Ĭork balḣsn (N.Y.) --- Шин Йорк (N.Y.) --- Shin Ĭork (N.Y.) --- 뉴욕 (N.Y.) --- Lungsod ng New York (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York Iniqpak (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York (N.Y.) --- New York-borg (N.Y.) --- Nuova York (N.Y.) --- ניו יורק (N.Y.) --- New York Lakanbalen (N.Y.) --- Lakanabalen ning New York (N.Y.) --- Evrek Nowydh (N.Y.) --- Nouyòk (N.Y.) --- Bajarê New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- Mueva York (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Mueva York (N.Y.) --- סיבֿדאד די מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Novum Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Neo-Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Civitas Novi Eboraci (N.Y.) --- Ņujorka (N.Y.) --- Niujorkas (N.Y.) --- Niujorko miestas (N.Y.) --- Niuiork (N.Y.) --- Њујорк (N.Y.) --- Njujork (N.Y.) --- Bandar Raya New York (N.Y.) --- Bandaraya New York (N.Y.) --- Nuoba Iorque (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк хот (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork khot (N.Y.) --- Āltepētl Yancuīc York (N.Y.) --- Niej-York (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク市 (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku-shi (N.Y.) --- NYC (N.Y.) --- N.Y.C. (N.Y.) --- Social conditions --- Hovey, Sonya --- Opesken, Sara

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