This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation Americans who don't worry about assimilation as their parents' generation did? If so, how does the writing of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union fit into the picture? Unlike Irving Howe predicted in 1977, Jewish-American literature did not fade after immigration. It always finds new paths, drawing from the vast scope of Jewish life in America.
- ISBN10 383763986X
- ISBN13 9783837639865
- Publish Date 8 December 2021 (first published 10 October 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Transcript Verlag
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 204
- Language English