After the tradition : essays on modern Jewish writing / by Robert Alter.

Jewish dreams and nightmares -- Sentimentalizing the Jews -- The apocalyptic temper -- Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination -- Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival -- Saul Bellow : a dissent from modernism -- Bernard Malamud : Jewishness as a metaphor -- S.Y. Agnon : the alphabet of holiness -- Elie Wiesel : between hangman and victim -- Confronting the Holocaust -- The Israeli novel. "The two generations" (1962) ; "Language and realism" (1966) -- The days of Ziklag : in search of a cultural past -- The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky -- Poetry in Israel.