The modern Jewish canon : a journey through language and culture / Ruth R. Wisse.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-384) and index.

The comedy of endurance : Sholem Aleichem -- The logic of language and the trials of the Jews : Franz Kafka and Yosef Haim Brenner -- Literature of the Russian Revolution : from Isaac Babel to Vasily Grossman -- Between the wars : the Singer family of Warsaw -- A farewell to Poland : Jacob Glatstein and S.Y. Agnon -- Shoah, Jhurbn, Holocaust : testimonies in native and adopted tongues -- The Zionist fate in English hands : from George Eliot to A.M. Klein -- The immigrant phase : American Jewish fiction from 1900 to 1950 -- Writing beyond alienation : Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth -- A chapter in the making : Israeli Literature.