Jew in the American War Novel - 1920s2020s

This is the first book of its kind to provide an analysis of the representation of Jews in American war novels throughout the long twentieth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Relationship between Jewish Americans and Wars
Chapter 1: The Interwar Period-the Jew as an Unmasculine Man who Evades the War
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: The Jew as Imitating the Real Male
John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers: The "Kike" who is Proven Right
Chapter 2: The 1940s-1950s - Oversimplifying the Jewish American Conflict
Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions: Anti-Semitism as a Threat to Democracy
Wasteland: The Merger of Jewish and Non-Jewish Blood
That Winter: Revisiting Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
Chapter 3: The 1960s-1980s-Jewish Wars
War and Remembrance: WWII and Saving Jews
Crescent City: A Jewish War Against Slavery and Chauvinism
Chapter 4: The 1990s-2020s-The Jews as Separate from Other Americans
All Other Nights: A Clash Between the Two Identities
The Living and the Lost: The Holocaust as Shaping Jewish Identity
Epilogue: Blood, Draft Evasion, and Anti-Semitism in The Human Stain
Index

About the author

Ohad Reznick teaches American literature at Tel Aviv University and Ben¿Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Imagined Non¿Jews: Jews Passing as Gentiles in Post¿WWII and Multicultural American Fiction (2024). His articles appear in MELUS, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Ohad Reznick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032995328
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3299532-8
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Religion: general, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Armed Conflict, Social groups: religious groups and communities