The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Jewish, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781135456061 | |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | November 23, 2004 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781135456061 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | November 23, 2004 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
- examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
- includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen
- contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature
- provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers.
Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
- examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
- includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen
- contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature
- provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers.
Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
