Modern Jewish women writers in America / edited with an introduction by Evelyn Avery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.

Rethinking Mary Antin and The promised land / Jules Chametzky -- Between two worlds--Anzia Yezierska: longing for the new, bound to the old / Evelyn Avery -- Edna Ferber, Jewish American writer: Who knew? / Eileen H. Watts -- "My own design": finding identity in Anne Roiphe's writings / Melanie Levinson -- Conversation with Johanna Kaplan / Nahma Sandrow -- Johanna Kaplan and the freedom of attachment / Carol Iannone -- Norma Rosen's Jewish journey / Ann Shapiro -- Cynthia Ozick's Puttermesser papers: from whimsy to wisdom / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Rebecca Goldstein: tension and ambivalence / Anna P. Ronell -- Kei'tsad Mirakdim Lifnei HaKalah: how do you dance before the bride? / Miriyam Glazer -- Anxieties in the "modern context": fantasies of change in Allegra Goodman's fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Failed conquests: Jews and Germans in fictions and memoirs by American Jewish women / Susanne Klingenstein -- "Writing between worlds" / Tova Mirvis -- On being modern and Orthodox: a conversation with Tova Mirvis / Evelyn Avery -- Select annotated bibliography of contemporary Jewish American women writers / Eileen H. Watts.