Table of Contents: Israel through the Jewish-American imagination :

Main Author:	Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Series:	SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Subjects:	American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism. Judaism and literature > History > 20th century. > United States Jewish fiction > History and criticism. Jews in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American fiction > Jewish authors. Jewish fiction. Judaism and literature. Literature. Literatura comparada. Literatura hebraica. Israel > In literature. Israel. United States.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Israel, the foremost preoccupation of the American Jew
Meyer Levin against the grain: A Zionist writer takes on America's pre-Zionist Zeitgeist
Embattled uris: A look back at Exodus
Saul Bellow's Middle East problem
Hugh Nissenson's Israel: In search of a viable Jewish ethos in Israel
Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic complications, and current crises
Philip Roth's nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the post-colonial critique
Anne Roiphe's angst: A Jewish-American feminist looks at Israel
Tova Rich's daring vision; or, the feminization of Israel's penitent
Conclusion.