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
(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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Contents of Works
- 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