Sounds of a New Generation : : On Contemporary Jewish-American Literature / / Deborah Wallrabenstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Wallrabenstein, Deborah,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; Acknowledgment --; Introduction --; 1. Generations on the Move --; 2. Contemporary Jewish-American Literature --; 3. The Past of Shtetl and Family --; 4. New Beginnings --; 5. The New 'Russian-Jewish-American' Literature --; Conclusion --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839439869; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110548198; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839439869?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Deborah Wallrabenstein.

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.