Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 18901930 - Struggles for Recognition

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.

List of contents

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: Towards a Contingent Identity

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

About the author

By Dana Mihailescu

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mih&, Dana Mih¿ilescu, Dana Mihailescu, Mihailescu Dana
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781498563895
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6389-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory; Lexington Studies in Modern Je; Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, RELIGION / History, 20th Century, RELIGION / Judaism / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Religion, Jewish Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Judaism, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities