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Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination

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title	:	Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination : A Survey of Jewish-American Literature On Israel, 1928-1995 SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
author	:	Furman, Andrew.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0791432521
print isbn13	:	9780791432525
ebook isbn13	:	9780585091181
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Israel--In literature, Jewish fiction--United States--History and criticism.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS153.J4F87 1997eb
ddc	:	813/.509325694/089924
subject	:	American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Israel--In literature, Jewish fiction--United States--History and criticism.

Page ii SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen, Editor

Page iii Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 19281995 Andrew Furman STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Page iv Production by Ruth Fisher Marketing by Dana E. Yanulavich Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1997 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address the State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Furman, Andrew, 1968 Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 19281995 / Andrew Furman. p. cm. (SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3251-3 (hc : alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3252-1 (pb : alk. paper) 1. American fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticism. 2. IsraelIn literature. 3. Jewish fictionUnited StatesHistory and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. PS153.J4F87 1997 813'.509325694'089924-dc2096-18577 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v To my grandparents, Ruth and Herbert Dickstein, and Dorothy and Ralph Furman and To my parents, Nanc+y and Stephen Furman, who still correct my English

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Introduction: Israel, The Foremost Preoccupation of the American Jew 1 Chapter 2 Meyer Levin Against the Grain: A Zionist Writer Takes on America's Pre-Zionist Zeitgeist 21 Chapter 3 Embattled Uris: A Look Back at Exodus 39 Chapter 4 Saul Bellow's Middle East Problem 59 Chapter 5 Hugh Nissenson's Israel: In Search of a Viable Jewish Ethos in Israel 83 Chapter 6 Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic Complications, and Current Crises 109 Chapter 7 Philip Roth's Nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A Confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the Post-Colonial Critique 127 Chapter 8 Anne Roiphe's Angst: A Jewish-American Feminist Looks at Israel 153

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