Selected Bibliography: Books

Ben-Joseph, Eli. Aesthetic Persuasion: Henry James, the Jews, and Race. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1996.

Bilik, Dorothy S. Immigrant Survivors: Post Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1981.

Bloom, Alexander. Prodigal sons: the NY intellectuals & their world. NY: Oxford UP, 1986. F128.9 .J5 B55

Breen Jon L. and Martin H. Greenberg. eds. Synod of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo Christian Detective Fiction. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow P, 1990.

Chapman, Abraham. Jewish American literature: an anthology of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism. NY: New American Library, 1974. PS508 .J4 C5

Cheyette, Bryan.ed. Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1996.

Cohen Sarah B. ed. From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish American Stage and Screen. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

Eisenberg, Azriel L. ed. The golden land; a literary portrait of American Jewry, 1654 to the present. NY: T. Yoseloff. 1965. PS508.J4 E4

Finsker, Sanford, and Jack Fishcel. America and the Holocaust. Greenwood, FL: Penkevill, 1984.

| Top | Friedman, Lester D. Hollywood's Image of the Jew; With Photographs. NY: Ungar, 1982.

Gittleman, Sol. From shtetl to suburbia: the family in Jewish literary imagination. Boston: Beacon P, 1978. PJ5120 .G5

Greenspoon, Leonard J. and Bryan F. Le Beau. eds. Representation of Jews through the Ages. Omaha, NE: Creighton UP, 199?

Gross, Theodore L. The literature of American Jews. NY: Free P, 1973. PS508 J4 G7

Guttmann, Allen. The Jewish writer in America; assimilation and the crisis of identity. NY: Oxford UP, 1971. PS153.J4 G8

Harap, Louis. The image of the Jew in American literature: from early Republic to mass immigration. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974. PS173 J4 H3

Kielsky, Vera E. Inevitable Exiles: Cynthia Ozick's View of the Precariousness of Jewish Existence in a Gentile Society. NY: Peter Lang, 1989.

Malin, Irving. Jews and Americans. Carbondale, Southern Illinois UP, 1965. PS508.J4 M32

- - -. Contemporary American Jewish literature; critical essays. Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1973. PS153 J4 M3

Mersand, Joseph E. Traditions in American literature; a study of Jewish characters and authors. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat P, 1968, 1939. PS153 J4 M4

Nadel, Ira B. Jewish writers of North America: a guide to information sources. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1981. PS153 .J4 N2x

Rosen, Gladys. ed. Jewish Life in America. NY: KTAV, 1978.

Wisse, Ruth R. The schlemiel as modern hero. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1971. PN6149 J4 W5

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Abramson, Edward A. "Bernard Malamud and the Jews: An Ambiguous Relationship." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 146-56.

Altman, Meryl. "A Book of Repulsive Jews?: Rereading Nightwood." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (Fall 1993): 160-71.

Avery, Evelyn M. "'Bittersweet Encounter: Blacks and Jews in the Fiction of Ethnic Women'." The Ethnic American Woman: Problems, Protests, Lifestyle. Ed. Edith Blicksilver. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1989. 420-25.

Breslin, James E. B. "Ezra Pound and the Jews." San Jose Studies 12.3 (Fall 1986): 37-45.

Bronner, Simon J. "Structural and Stylistic Relations of Oral and Literary Humor: An Analysis of Leo Rosten's H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Stories." Journal of the Folklore Institute 19.1 (Jan-Apr 1982): 31-45.

Carter, Everett. "Realists and Jews." Studies in American Fiction 22.1 (Sprg 1994): 81-91.

Chametzky, Jules. "Styron's Sophie's Choice, Jews, and Other Marginals, and the Mainstream." Prospects 9 (1984): 433-40.

Dolmetsch, Carl. "Mark Twain and the Viennese Anti Semites: New Light on 'Concerning the Jews'."Mark Twain Journal 23.2 (Fall 1985): 10-17..

Dorinson, Joseph. "The Gold Dust Twins of Marginal Humor: Blacks and Jews." Maledicta 8 (1984-85): 163-92.

Field, Leslie. "Thomas Wolfe's Attitudes toward Germany and Jews." Journal of Modern Literature 11.1 (Mar 1984): 180-85.

Fried, Louis. "Jacob Riis and the Jews: The Ambivalent Quest for Community." American Studies 20.1 (Sprg 1979): 5-24.

Friedman, Alan W. "The Jew's Complaint in Recent American Fiction: Beyond Exodus and Still in the Wilderness." Southern Review 8 (1972): 41-59.

Friedman, Melvin J. "Something Jewish Happened: Some Thoughts about Joseph Heller's Good as Gold." Critical Essays on Joseph Heller. Ed. James Nagel. Boston: Hall, 1984. 196-204.

- - -. "Recent New England Fiction: Outsiders and Insiders." American Literature: The New England Heritage. Eds. James Nagel and Richard Astro. NY: Garland, 1981. 167-82.

Gillin, Edward. "'Julia' and Julia's Son." Modern Language Studies 19.2 ( Sprg 1989); 3-11.

Gilman, Sander L. "Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews." American Literature 65.1 (Mar 1993): 95-115.

Gilmore, Thomas B. "Allbee's Drinking." Twentieth Century Literature 28.4 (Wint 1982): 381-96.

Girgus, Sam B. "The New Covenant: The Jews and the Myth of America." The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture. Ed. Sam Girgus. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1981. 105-23.

| Top | Gross, Barry. American Fiction, Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of 'The Human Negro' in Philip Roth. MELUS 11.2 (Sumr 1984): 5-22.

- - -. "'Intellectual Overlordship': Blacks, Jews and Native Son." Journal of Ethnic Studies 5.3 (Fall 1977): 51-59.

- - -. "Sophie Portnoy and 'The Opossum's Death': American Sexism and Jewish Anti Gentilism." Studies in American Jewish Literature 3 (1983): 166-78.

- - -, and Eric Fretz. "What Fitzgerald Thought of the Jews: Resisting Type in 'The Hotel Child'." New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Neglected Stories. Ed. Jackson R. Bryer. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. 189-205.

Gunn, Thom. "Pushy Jews and Aging Queens: Imaginary People in Two Novels by Coleman Dowell." Review of Contemporary Fiction 2.3 (Fall 1982): 133-45.

Guttmann, Allen. "The Conversions of the Jews." The Cry of Home:Cultural Nationalism and the Modern Writer. Ed. H. Ernest Lewald. Knoxville: U. of Tenn. P, 1972. 245-67.

Harap, Louis. "The Religious Art of Cynthia Ozick." Judaism 33.1 (Sumr 1984): 353-63.

Harrison, Walter L. "Baseball and American Jews." Journal of Popular Culture 15.3 (Wint 1981): 112-18.

Iannone, Carol. "E. L. Doctorow's 'Jewish' Radicalism." Commentary 81.3 (Mar 1986): 53-56.

Kahn, Sholom J. "Mark Twain's Philosemitism: 'Concerning the Jews'." Mark Twain Journal 23.2 (Fall 1985): 18-25.

Kaivola, Karen. "The 'Beast Turning Human': Constructions of the 'Primitive' in Nightwood." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (Fall 1993): 172-85.

Kellman, Steven. "Jews, Beasts, and Americans." Studies in American Jewish Literature 5 (1986): 61-68.

Levenberg, Diane. "Three Jewish Writers and the Spirit of the Thirties: Michael Gold, Anzia Yezierska, and Henry Roth." Book Forum 6.2 (1982): 233-44.

| Top | Levitt, Morton P. "Roth and Kafka: Two Jews." Critical Essays on Philip Roth. Ed Sanford Pinsker. Boston: Hall, 1982. 245-54.

Lowrey, Robert E. "Imagination and Redemption: 44 in the Third Version of The Mysterious Stranger." Southern Review 18.1 (Wint 1982): 100-110.

Mason, Angela J. and Timothy J. Viator. "Driving Miss Daisy: A Sociosemiotic Analysis." Southern Quarterly 33.1 (Fall 1994): 55-63.

Michel, Sonya. "Yekl and Hester Street: Was Assimilation Really Good for the Jews." Literature Film Quarterly 5 (1977): 142-46.

"Of Arabs and Jews." MELUS 15.4 (Wint 1988).

Ozick, Cynthia. "Mark Twain and the Jews." Commentary 99.5 (May 1995): 56-62.

Pfefferkorn, Eli. "Elie Wiesel: The Inward Eyewitness in The Testament." Modern Language Studies 14.1 (Wint 1984): 3-10.

Pinsker, Sanford. "The Crucifixion of Chaim Potok/the Excommunication of Asher Lev: Art and the Hasidic World." Studies in American Jewish Literature 4 (1985): 39-51.

Polun, Karen. "In Defense of Mencken." Menckeniana 118 (Sumr 1991): 12-15.

Richman, Sheldon L. "Mr. Mencken and the Jews." American Scholar 59.3 (Sumr 1990): 407-11.

Rosenthal, Bernard. "Herman Melville's Wandering Jews." Puritan Influences in American Literature. Ed. Emory Elliot. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979.

Roth, David S. "'The Conversion of the Jews': What Hath Mother Wrought?" Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers 3.2 (1976): 39-42.

Roulston, Robert. "Hawthorne's Attitude toward Jews." American Transcendental Quarterly 29 (1976): 3-8.

| Top | Rudat, Wolfgang E. H. "Cohn and Romero in the Ring: Sports and Religion in The Sun Also Rises." Arizona Quarterly 41.4 (Wint 1985): 311-18.

Schappes, Morris U. "How American Writers Saw the Jews." Journal of Ethnic Studies 6.2 (1978): 75-92.

Schwartz, Robert. "'Rappaccini's Daughter' and 'Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter'." Western Folklore 45.1 (Jan 1986); 21-33.

Searles, George J. "The Mouths of Babes: Childhood Epiphany in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews' and Updike's 'Pigeon Feathers'." Studies in Short Fiction 24.1 (Wint 1987): 59-62.

Seidman, Naomi. A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish. U Of California P, 1997.

Shaheen, Naseeb. "Binder Unbound, or, How Not to Convert the Jews." Studies in Short Fiction 13 (1976): 376-78.

Sherman, Joseph. "What's Jews? Isaac Bashevis Singer's Androygenus." Prooftexts 14.2 (May 1994): 167-88.

Shields, David S. "Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo Jewish Elite in British America." A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. Ed. Frank Shuffelton. NY: Oxford UP, 1993. 143-62.

Smolinski, Reiner, "Jehovah's Peculium: The New Jerusalem and the Jews in Puritan Eschatology." Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Eds. Derounian Stodola and Kathryn Zabelle. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1992. 84-108.

Solomon, Eric. "Jews, Baseball, and the American Novel." Arete 1.2 (Sprg 1984): 43-66.

Tippens, Darryl. "The Shechinah Theme in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews'." Christianity and Literature 35.3 (Sprg 1986): 13-20.

Tuerk, Richard. "Jews without Money as a Work of Art." Studies in American Jewish Literature 7.1 (Sprg 1988); 67-79.

Walden, Daniel. "Chaim Potok, Zwischenmensch ('Between Person') Adrift in the Cultures." Studies in American Jewish Literature 4 (1985); 19-25.

Wasserman, Loretta. "Cather's Semitism." Cather Studies 2 (1993): 1-22.

Woolf, Michael. "Charyn in the 1960s: Among the Jews." Review of Contemporary Fiction 12.2 (Sumr 1992): 143-51.

Workman, Mark E. "The Serious Consequences of Ethnic Humor in Portnoy's Complaint." Midwestern Folklore 13.1 (Sprg 1987): 16-26.

Young, James E. "'I May Be a Bit of a Jew': The Holocaust Confessions of Sylvia Plath." Philological Quarterly 66.1 (Wint 1987): 127-47.

"Writing about Jews." Commentary 36 (1963): 446-452.

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