{"product_id":"jewish-american-literature-a-norton-anthology-9780393048094","title":"Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic and Contemporary Writers: Here  generously represented  are the writers who have shaped the tradition  among them Emma Lazarus  Abraham Cahan  Henry Roth  Nathanael West  Clifford Odets  Tillie Olsen  Bernard Malamud  Saul Bellow  Grace Paley  Philip Roth  Allen Ginsberg  Cynthia Ozick  and Harold Bloom. Joining them are younger writers such as Melvin Jules Bukiet  Jacqueline Osherow  Art Speigelman  Steve Stern and Allegra Goodman  who bring the tradition up to its thriving present.Yiddish and Hebrew Writing in AmericaJewish American Literature: Traces in breadth and depth Americas rich Yiddish-language culture  from the work of Morris Rosenfeld and David Edelshtadt in the 1880s through the Yunge and Introspectivist movements to the post-Holocaust writings of Kadya Molodowsky and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Also represented is Hebrew writing  in translations of the work of Ephraim E. Lisitzky and modernist Gabriel Preil.Special Sections: \"Jewish Humor\" offers choice selections of Groucho Marx  Woody Allen  and a cluster of perennial Jewish jokes; \"The Golden Age of the Broadway Song\" samples the unforgettable lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II  Irving Berlin  Frank Loesser  and Stephen Sondheim  among others; \"Jews Translating Jews\" reflects on the translators role in transmitting tradition  gathering poems translated from Yiddish  Hebrew  German  Hungarian  Italian  and Spanish by Jewish American poets from Emma Lazarus to David Unger.Helpful and Lively Readers Apparatus: The Readers Apparatus includes a general introduction  period introductions  author headnotes  explanatory annotations  and selected bibliographies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495906402357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393048098","price":36.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393048094.jpg?v=1780903129","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/jewish-american-literature-a-norton-anthology-9780393048094","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}