Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs

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Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs

Donald Weber

(Jewish literature and culture)

Indiana University Press, c2005

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index

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  • Introduction : adjusting to America
  • Outsider in the old world, greenhorn in the new : Christopher Newman and David Levinsky
  • Gastronomic nostalgia : Anzia Yezierska
  • The claims of descent : immigrant cinema
  • Haunted in the new world : Henry Roth
  • To make "a Jew" : projecting antisemitism in post-war America
  • Memory and repression : Goldberg variations
  • The "Jewish opera" : Saul Bellow and other Jewish sons
  • Epilogue : nostalgia and 1950s popular culture

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