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American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form—when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora? Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by the likes of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Yoram Kaniuk—in particular, the ideologically motivated omissions and additions in the translations, and the works' reception by reviewers and public intellectuals—Asscher decodes the literary encounter between Israeli and American Jews. These discrepancies demarcate an ongoing cultural dialogue around representations of violence, ethics, Zionism, diaspora, and the boundaries between Jews and non-Jews. Navigating the disputes between these "rival siblings" of the Jewish world, Asscher provocatively untangles the cultural relations between Israeli and American Jews.

Translating and interpreting --- Israeli literature --- American literature --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism. --- American Jewry. --- Hebrew literature. --- Israel. --- Israeli-American Jewish relations. --- Jewish-American literature. --- Translation. --- diaspora. --- homeland. --- ideological manipulation. --- literary discourse.

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The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.

Jews --- Judaism --- Jewish philosophy --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Intellectual life. --- History --- American Jewry. --- Anthology. --- Breaking the Silence. --- Community. --- History. --- Holocaust. --- Identity. --- Interfaith Marriage. --- Israel. --- Israeli Supreme Court. --- Jewish Politics. --- Judaism. --- Memory. --- Messianism. --- Narrative. --- Palestine. --- Primary Sources. --- Religion. --- Textbook. --- Zionism. --- denial. --- education. --- family. --- feminism. --- homosexuality. --- language. --- modern theology. --- persecution. --- religious freedom. --- women. --- Jews - Intellectual life. --- Judaism - 20th century. --- Judaism - 21st century. --- Jewish philosophy - 20th century. --- Jewish philosophy - 21st century. --- Jews - History - 1945 --- -Jews