Red, Black, and Jew : : New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature /

Red, Black, and Jew : : New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature / / Stephen Katz.

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Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew wr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Katz, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Encountering Native Americans: B. N. Silkiner’s Mul ohel Timmura
  • Chapter Two. Facing the Sunset: Israel Efros on Native Americans
  • Chapter Three. To Be as Others : E. E. Lisitzky’s Representation of Native Americans
  • Chapter Four. Fantasy or Plain Folk: Imagining Native Americans
  • Chapter Five. Child’s Play: Hillel Bavli’s “Mrs . Woods” and the Indian in American Hebrew Literature
  • Chapter Six. Red Heart, Black Skin: E. E. Lisitzky’s Encounters with African American Folksong and Poetry
  • Chapter Seven. From Prop to Trope to Real Folks: Blacks in Hebrew Literature
  • Chapter Eight. Representing African Americans: The Realistic Trend
  • Chapter Nine. The Language of Alienation: The Anxiety of an Americanized Hebrew
  • Chapter Ten. Singing the Song of Zion: American Hebrew Literature and Israel
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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