Who We Are On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer

Name: Who We Are On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
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ISBN: 9780805242393

ISBN-10: 0805242392

ISBN-13: 9780805242393

Edition: 2005

Authors: Derek Rubin

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E.L. Doctorow writes against the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and argues for a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. "Who We Are also tells us how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/10/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

DEREK RUBIN teaches in the English Department and the American Studies Program at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His essay anthology, Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer won the 2005 National Jewish Book Award.



Introduction



Starting Out in Chicago



Clearing My Jewish Throat



Tradition and (or Versus) the Jewish Writer



Culture Confrontation in Urban America: A Writer's Beginnings



Deism



Writing About Jews



Coming Home



The End of the Jewish Writer?



Max and Mottele



How I Got to Be Jewish



Tales of My Great-Grandfathers



After the Law



Mein Kampf



Against Logic



How I Became a Jewish Writer in America



Nothing Makes You Free



Body of Love



Writing Something Real



Living, Loving, Temple-Going



Princess



Divinity School or Trusting the Act of Writing



Law and Legacy in the Post-Holocaust Imagination



Forward and Back: A Journey Between Worlds



Writing with a Return Address



The Davka Method



On Becoming a Russian Jewish American



Writing Between Worlds



On the Interpretation of Dreams



When God's Your Favorite Writer



About the Contributors


Acknowledgments


Permissions Acknowledgments