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

Publication | Library Call Number: PJ5017 .A4 1969

Physical Description: 256 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Subjects: Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
Judaism and literature--United States--History.
United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.
Jews--United States--Intellectual life.
Jews in literature.
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