List of contributors
Cbronology
Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making
HAN A WIRTH-NESHER AND MICHAEL P.KRAMER
1. Beginings and ends:the origins of Jewish American literary history
MICHAEL P.KRAMER
2. Imagining Judaism in America
SUSANNAH HESCHEL
3. Of crucbles and grandfathers:the East European immigrants
PRISCILLA WALD
4. Coney Island ,USA:America in the Yiddish liteary imagination
DAVID G.ROSKIES
5. Hebrew literature in America
ALAN MINTZ
6. Traces of the past:muitilingua Jewish American writing
HANA WIRTH-NESHER
7. Accents of the :Jewish American popular culture
DONALD WEBER
8. Jewish American poetry
MAEERA Y.SHREIBER
9. Jewish American writers on the Left
ALAN WALD
10. Jewish American renaissance
RUTH R.WISSE
11. The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary inagination
EMILY MILLER BOUDICK
12. Jewish American women writers and the race question
SUSAN GUBAR
13. On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics
SHIRA WOLOSKY
14. Identity matters:contemporary Jewish American writing
TRESA GRAUER
Index

List of contributors
Cbronology
Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making
HAN A WIRTH-NESHER AND MICHAEL P.KRAMER
1. Beginings and ends:the origins of Jewish American literary history
MICHAEL P.KRAMER
2. Imagining Judaism in America
SUSANNAH HESCHEL
3. Of crucbles and grandfathers:the East European immigrants
PRISCILLA WALD
4. Coney Island ,USA:America in the Yiddish liteary imagination
DAVID G.ROSKIES
5. Hebrew literature in America
ALAN MINTZ
6. Traces of the past:mu...