ISBN:
1498563902
,
9781498563901
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Lexington studies in modern Jewish history, historiography, and memory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mihăilescu, Dana Eastern European Jewish American narratives, 1890-1930
DDC:
305.892/4073
Keywords:
Jews, East European History 19th century
;
Immigrants History 19th century
;
Jews, East European History 20th century
;
Immigrants History 20th century
;
American literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Jews Identity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
American literature ; Jewish authors
;
Ethnic relations
;
Immigrants
;
Jews, East European
;
Jews ; Identity
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States
Abstract:
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Power Fields, Struggles for Recognition, and the Birth of Jewish American Contingent Identity; 1 Preliminary Considerations; 2 Eastern European Traditions in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Narratives; 3 American Traditions between Temptations and Traps; Part II: Jewishness, Responsibility, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth Century America: Writing an Ethics out of Contingency; 4 Stances of Ethical Agency out of Contingency; 5 Human Socialities between Struggles for Recognition and Ethical Responsibility; Conclusion.
Abstract:
This book offers a comparative study of the Jewish response to identity structures in Eastern Europe and the United States from 1890 to 1930 in narratives by immigrant writers from the Pale of Settlement and Romania
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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