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Title: Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
ISBN: 0393048098
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Publicate Date: 2000-10-02
Publish: 2000-10-02
List Price: $39.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Nice Introduction to J/A Literature
Nice Survey of this broad category of literature, with some amazingly arcane finds; but one should read a lot more of any given author than is presented here to develop a real appreciation for that particular writer's contribution (e.g., only a single 21-page short story is given from Nobel-prize winner Saul Bellow, which is pretty sparse in a book over 1,000 pages long and is less than is given to Bellow's little-known contemporary Tillie Olsen.) So I think the purpose of this anthology is to give the reader an appreciation more for the breadth, than the depth, of the titular subject.
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2: It could have been better.
This anthology attempts to considerably widen the Jewish canon introducing a large number of writers (many in Yiddish_ little known to the general reading public. It also does not choose the best of the major writers, and its selections here could be improved. But it does include a great deal of interesting material. It is not the best but it certainly it is far better than nothing.
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3: Another rave
Anybody's who is at all interested in Jewish culture will learn a lot from this book -- and enjoy it too. It's got a great section on Jews on broadway, an hysterical piece by Woody Allen, another highly readable set of Jewish jokes -- one can find historical information, interesting stuff on the immigrant's experiece, poetry, old and new, short stories as well as the standards like Roth and Bellow...You can pull this book down and start anywhere -- all the pieces are short so you don't get overwhelmed -- and feel instantly the richness and depth of the Jewish-American tradition.
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