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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04820-1 - The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature Edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher Index More information Index All titles beginning with articles, in English or other languages, are indexed on the word following the title. Groups/movements such as Di yunge are indexed on the article. Variations in Romanization of Hebrew and Yiddish in the index derive from the contributors’ transliterations in the essays. No attempt has been made to adopt a unifi ed transliteration standard. “ A gute nakht, velt ” (“Good Night, World”) Adler, Bruce, 239 (Glatstein), 209 – 210 , 219 – 220 Adler, Jacob, 229 , 236 , 239 “ A nakht ” (”Night”) (Halpern), 215 – 216 Adler, Morris, 238 – 239 Aarón the Jew ( El judío Aarón ) (Eichelbaum), Adler, Sara, 226 419 , 421 The Adventures of Augie March (Bellow), 99 , Abbott, George, 246 – 247 125 – 128 , 133 , 495 – 496 Abie’s Irish Rose (Nichols), 244 – 245 , 549 The Adventures of Yaakov and Isaac Abraham, Pearl, 634 (Kubert), 580 Abramovitch, Bina, 226 Af Tzelokhis Purim Brigade (theatrical Abramovitsh, Shalom (Mendele Moykher troupe), 561 – 562 Sforim), 406 , 498 Af yener zayt taykh ( On the Other Side of the Absalom! Absalom! (Faulkner), 115 River ) (Hirschbein), 232 Abstract Expressionists, 591 “The Affi nity of Poetry and Religion” Abulafi a (Kabbalist), 191 (Menken), 527 – 528 Aciman, André African American music, 96 in Alexandria, 322 African American stereotypes, 264 – 265 on diasporic adaptability, 324 African American writing, 6 , 42 , 253 exile of, 323 – 325 African Americans Harvard Square , 327 – 329 Black Power movement among, 494 longing in prose of, 322 – 323 in Driving Miss Daisy , 253 , 514 on marranos , 325 Harlem Renaissance among, 508 on memoirists, 321 in Haunch, Paunch, and Jowl , 96 Out of Egypt , 322 – 323 , 325 – 326 Hebraist respect for, 291 as post-millennial writer, 634 in I’m Not Rappaport , 253 on return to Egypt, 329 in Kentucky , 2 1 8 An Acre in Time (Sherman), 420 – 421 multiculturalism and, 137 The Actual (Bellow), 144 in The New Yorker , 6 2 9 Ad mashber ( Until the Crash ) (Halkin), 291 – 292 in The People From Heaven , 7 2 “ Adam v’khalbo ” [A man and his dog] in Portnoy’s Complaint , 1 3 8 (Blank), 507 in The Promised Land , 96 Adams, Henry, 596 Silverman’s performance and, 617 – 619 Adieu Babylone (Kattan), 442 See also Roth, Henry 673 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04820-1 - The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature Edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher Index More information Index African Americans in Jewish writing. See The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay blacks in Jewish writing (Chabon) After Babel (Steiner), 489 , 493 – 494 awards won by, 592 – 593 , 622 , 627 Against Interpretation (Sontag), 462 , 464 English in, 58 Agentn (Sholem Aleichem), 237 escape in, 159 – 160 , 574 – 576 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 11 the golem in, 353 – 354 Ahiever (Hebrew culture and publishing the Holocaust in, 351 – 352 , 355 , 358 society), 282 Maus and, 354 AIDS/HIV, 253 – 254 , 553 popular culture and, 592 – 593 “ Al brekhat Georg ” (On Lake George) super-heroes in, 385 , 574 – 576 (Bavli), 292 The Ambassadors (Henry James), 54 “ Al hof Santa Barbara ” [On the Shore at Amber, Lenny. See Bernstein, Leonard Santa Barbara] (Halkin), 285 La America (Judeo-Spanish newspaper), Aleksander, oder der kroynprints fun 298 – 299 Yerusholayim ( Alexander; or, The Crown “America” (Wise), 30 Prince of Jerusalem ) (Lateiner), 225 – 226 “America! America!” (Delmore Schwartz), “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Berlin), 585 115 – 116 Alexie, Sherman, 72 America and I: Short Stories by American Alhadeff , Gini, 322 , 325 – 326 Jewish Women Writers (anthology) Alharizi (Yehuda Alharizi), 176 (Antler, ed.), 482 alienation The American (Henry James), 497 in Ad mashber , 288 American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories African Americanness and, 506 (anthology) (Gerald Shapiro, ed,), assimilation vs., 106 481 – 482 as attractive, 106 American Jewish Studies Association, in Brukhvarg , 217 240 – 241 dissimilation and, 116 American Pastoral (Phillip Roth), 115 , 423 in Harvard Square , 328 The American Plan (Richard Greenberg), 552 in Herzog , 125 American Society for Theatre Research, of immigrant women in America, 240 – 241 403 – 404 American Space, Jewish Time (Whitfi eld), 572 immigration, modernity and, 103 – 107 American Splendor (Pekar), 570 Irving Howe on, 131 – 132 An American Type (Henry Roth), 508 – 510 from Israel, 364 , 371 American Yiddish Poetry (anthology) Jewish alienation, 475 , 480 (Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, in “Mayne,” 403 – 404 eds.), 495 in “ No-York ,” 286 Americanization Nyburg vs., 108 in American Pastoral , 423 in Isaac Rosenfeld’s work, 106 of Antin, 52 in Searches and Seizures , 146 Asch and, 408 in Yiddish American theater, 230 Cahan’s championing of, 50 aliya (immigration to Israel), 366 , 370 , costs of, 2 373 – 375 Moise’s hymns and, 544 Alkalay-Gut, Karen, 294 , 374 nature, landscape and, 428 Allen, Woody, 267 , 617 in New York, 405 – 406 Alliance Israélite Universelle schools, speed of, 595 302 – 303 , 331 See also assimilation ; the idea of America “The Almost Meeting” (Kreisel), 440 Americanness Altabé, David Fintz, 310 Hebraist resistance against, 288 – 289 Alter, Robert, 12 Hebrew poets’ versions of, 289 – 290 674 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04820-1 - The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature Edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher Index More information Index Jesus is Magic and, 619 The Promised Land , 37 , 52 , 54 , 88 – 90 , and Jewish American identity, 106 – 107 96 , 363 Jewish culture and, 106 – 107 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 of Jewish entertainers, 264 as translator, 498 in Jewish literary scholarship, 3 Walt Whitman and, 52 of Middle-Eastern Jews, 327 anti-Semitism in Portnoy’s Complaint , 616 in the 50s, 273 in Silverman’s performance, 619 of Henry Adams, 596 Sollors on, 5 in “America,” 30 in Trilling’s self-identifi cation, 460 in The Assistant , 125 See also assimilation ; the idea of America in Europe, 343 “America’s Blackest Jewish Writer” (Heft), 517 the fi lm industry and, 263 Amerikaner yidishe poezye (anthology) in The Fixer , 125 (M. Bassin, ed.), 210 – 211 of Henry Ford, 262 – 263 Améry, Jean, 354 – 355 in Friday the Rabbi Slept Late , 126 Amichai, Yehuda, 623 in The Gentile Wife , 244 “ Amos mokher tapuzim ” (Amos the in Gentleman’s Agreement , 126 Orange-seller) (Bernard Isaacs), 291 in The Ghost Writer , 1 4 9 L’Amour du Yiddish: écriture juive et sentiment in Herr Goldenbarg , 4 7 – 4 8 de la langue (Robin), 443 in Hollywood, 262 – 263 , 272 Anatomy of a Murder (fi lm), 591 in Iran, 335 – 336 Andalusian Hebrew poetry, 191 Jewface performance and, 604 Anderson, Maxwell, 250 Jewish American drama and, Anderson, Patrick, 439 248 – 250 , 253 Anderson, Robert, 549 The Jewish Caravan and, 473 Andy Hardy fi lm series, 263 Jewish sexuality and, 548 Angel, Vicki, 305 – 307 in Jews without Money , 97 Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on in “Lady of the Lake,” 135 National Themes (Kushner), 254 , Lazarus and, 178 , 366 , 534 510 – 511 , 553 – 555 Lewisohn and, 366 Angoff , Charles, 476 in Out of Egypt , 325 – 326 Ansky, S. (Shloyme Zanvi Rappaport), 237 , in The Plot Against America , 151 , 511 – 512 240 , 246 , 558 in Portnoy’s Complaint , 614 – 615 anthologies. See Jewish American literary Protocols of the Elders of Zion , 592 – 593 anthologies Philip Roth accused of, 128 – 129 , 345 – 346 Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical in The Septembers of Shiraz , 337 Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Silverman’s performance and, 617 – 619 Stories (Korte, ed.), 482 – 483 in the twentieth century, 145 Antin, Mary in The Victim , 137 , 348 America as viewed by, 89 of Thomas Wolfe, 596 – 597 Americanization of, 52 Antler, Joyce, 482 – 483 anthologized, 474 Anya (Schaeff er), 346 assimilation themes and, 88 – 90 , 106 , 116 Apatow, Judd, 275 – 276 English Language and, 52 , 58 , 89 Apess, William, 69 – 71 excluded from anthologies, 478 The Apostle (Asch), 496 Gold and, 90 , 97 – 98 Appell, Don, 249 – 250 in A Golden Treasury , 4 74 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in The Jewish Caravan , 4 7 1 (Mordecai Richler), 415 “The Lie,” 471 , 474 Aquinas, Thomas, 194 From Plotsk to Boston , 8 9 , 4 9 8 Arab Jews. See Jewish Middle Eastern pasts 675 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04820-1 - The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature Edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher Index More information Index Arab-Israeli war (Six Day War) (1967), 343 , The People vs. The God of Vengeance 363 , 494 and, 240 Arab-Jewish confl icts, 326 , 328 , I. B. Singer and, 409 – 410 3 7 2 , 3 7 5 , 5 7 3 Uncle Moses , 404 – 405 , 408 – 409 Arad, Maya, 295 Yiddish language and, 398 , 404 – 405 Ararat colony, 25 – 30 , 68 , 289 , 424 Ashkenazi Judaism Arbeter-Ring Workmen’s Circle, 234 – 235 in anthologies, 636 Arendt, Hannah, 157 , 511 – 512 in Canada, 441 Arfa, Milton, 293 colonial American settlements of, 298 Arguing with the Storm (anthology) Dropkin and, 539 (Tregebov, ed.), 499 and Maurice de Hirsch, 417 Arieli-Orloff , Lev, 288 Iranian Jews and, 334 Arliss, George, 263 in Israel, 369 Arnold, Matthew Longfellow and, 297 – 298 “best self ” idea of, 450 , 459 , 462 in the Middle East, 320 – 339 Cahan and, 449 – 450 , 452 – 453 , 466 Morales and, 426 – 427 Culture and Anarchy , 449 – 450 in Rozenmacher’s work, 426 Rahv and, 456 – 457 vs. Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, 636 Sontag and, 449 – 450 , 462 , 466 Sephardic Judaism and, 298 – 299 , 310 , Trilling and, 449 – 450 , 457 , 459 – 461 , 466 315 – 316 Arnoldian culture, 449 – 450 , 459 – 460 in the U.

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