The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature / edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making / Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history / Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America / Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants / Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination / David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America / Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture / Donald Webber -- Jewish American poetry / Maeera Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the left / Alan Wald -- Jewish American Renaissance / Ruth R. Wisse -- Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination / Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question / Susan Gubar -- Contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics / Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing / Tresa Grauer