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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

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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

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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

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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. S. Jewish community, 298 , 417 Aroeste, Sarah, 313 – 314 See also Noah, Mordecai Manuel Around Grand Street (Opatoshu), 402 – 403 Ashton, Diane, 166 The Arrogant Years (Lagnado), 324 Ask for a Convertible (Brown), 374 The Art of Blessing the Day (Piercy), 543 – 544 assimilation ARTEF ( Arbeter teater farband) (Workers’ advancing, 106 Theater Group), 234 , 236 , 238 alienation vs., 106 ArtScroll (Jewish press), 580 in Angels in America, 554 As A Man Thinks (Augustus Thomas), 245 Antin and, 88 , 106 As Is (William Hoff man), 553 in Bellow’s work, 149 Asayesh, Galare, 331 – 332 in Bread Givers, 92 – 93 “The Ascent of Eli Israel” (Papernick), in The Chosen People, 108 – 109 371 – 372 Cold War and, 135 Asch, Sholem community cohesion weakened by, 235 accused of apostasy, 496 as conformism, 106 “To America,” 398 as cultural loss, 490 Americanization and, 408 defi ned, 88 anthologized, 478 in Elkins’s work, 149 The Apostle, 496 in emergent Jewish American cultural loss and, 496 Literature, 126 East River, 408 – 409 in The Gentile Wife, 244 God of Vengeance ( Got fun nekome), 232 , in The Ghost Writer, 150 246 , 549 , 554 , 558 in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl, 96 Kidush hashem ( Sanctifi cation of the inevitability of, 149 Name), 232 of Iranian Jews, 334 – 338 Mary , 496 in The Island Within, 113 – 114 Moshiakhs tsaytn ( The Era of the in The Jazz Singer, 264 – 265 Messiah), 232 Jewish American comics and, 576 Motke ganev ( Motke the Thief), 232 in Jewish literature, 88 The Nazarene, 496 Jewish popular culture and, 584 – 585

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in Jews without Money, 9 7– 9 8 Balbuena, Monique Rodrigues, xi , 14 , in Latin America, 66 – 67 297 – 316 in The Melting Pot, 244 Balch, Trudy, 310 Muñoz vs., 560 Baldwin, James, 506 , 511 of Native Americans, 72 – 73 Balint, Judy Lash, 294 Native Studies and, 75 “ Bamigdal ” (In the Tower) (Shimon nature and landscape and, 428 Ginzburg), 285 in Paley’s work, 149 Band, Arnold, 293 – 294 pervasiveness of, 584 – 585 “The Banner of the Jew” (Lazarus), 35 in Portnoy’s Complaint, 137 – 142 Bar Kochba, Simon, 35 , 173 in post-war America, 135 – 136 Barkan, Sara, 507 in The Promised Land, 88 – 90 Bar-Kokhba, der zun fun dem shtern oder di resisted, 6 – 7 letste teg fun Yerusholayim ( Bar-Kokhba, in The Rise of David Levinsky, 90 – 92 Son of the Star; or, The Last Days of Isaac Rosenfeld and, 88 , 106 Jerusalem) (Goldfadn), 225 in The Septembers of Shiraz, 336 Barnes, Clive, 547 – 548 as socialism, 97 , 106 Baruch, Ben (William Levin), 580 – 581 State of Israel and, 367 Bashevis, Yitzhok (Isaac Bashevis Yiddish language and, 490 Singer), 495 vs. Zionism, 363 Baskind, Samantha, 578 See also Americanization ; Americanness ; Bass, Saul, 591 Jewish humor in America Basshe, Emjo, 246 – 247 The Assistant (Malamud), 125 , 387 Bassin, M., 210 – 211 Astaire, Fred, 595 Bassnett, Susan, 493 Astro, Alan, 499 Bauhaus (Weimar), 591 “At the Jewish New Year” (Rich), 541 Baumbach, Noah, 275 Atlanta Trilogy (Uhry), 253 – 254 Baumgarten, Murray, xi , 14 , 380 – 394 An Atlas of the Diffi cult World (Rich), Bavli, Hillel, 287 – 288 , 291 – 292 425 – 426 Beame, Abraham, 240 – 241 The Auctioneer (Charles Klein and Arthur Beauty and the Beast (Split Britches play), Lee), 243 – 244 557 – 558 Auden, W. H., 493 – 494 , 588 Beckett, Samuel, 153 , 238 , 588 , 592 August: Osage County (Letts), 551 Beethoven, Ludwig von, 176 “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (Rich), 539 Behar, Ruth, 309 , 420 Auster, Paul, 153 , 156 “ Behar bet Kolombiyah ” (On the Temple “Autumn Sadness” (Lazarus), 176 Mount of Columbia) (Shimon Avinoam, Reuben, 507 Ginzburg), 286 Awake and Sing! (Odets), 250 “ Behararei-haholot beMishigen ” (At the Di aynzame shif ( The Lonesome Ship) Michigan Sand Dunes) (Halkin), (Dluzhnovsky), 237 – 238 284 – 285 Behdad, Ali, 332 Babbitt, Milton, 589 – 590 Behrman, S. N., 250 – 252 Babel, Isaac, 346 , 461 , 479 “ Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” (Cahn, Bachman, Merle Lyn, 507 trans.), 597 Back, Rachel Tzvia, 197 – 198 Beiliss, Menahem Mendel, 48 , 135 Bad Jews (Harmon), 255 Bein erets veshamayim (Between Earth and Bagish, Zisha, 507 Heaven) (Sackler), 291 Bahrampour, Tara, 331 – 332 Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 417 Baitz, Jon Robin, 254 – 255 The Bellarosa Connection (Bellow), 144 , 348 Baladn (Leyb), 215 Bello, Andrés, 413 – 414

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Bellow, Saul Berkowitz, Y. D., 282 The Actual, 144 Berle, Milton, 609 The Adventures of Augie March, 9 9, Berlin, Irving, 585 , 597 125 – 128 , 133 , 495 – 496 Berlin, Isaiah, 24 The Bellarosa Connection, 144 , 348 Berman, Shelley, 609 Chicago and, 414 Bern, Mina, 238 Christianity and, 52 – 54 Bernhardt, Sandra, 555 Dangling Man, 125 , 495 – 496 Bernhardt, Sara, 270 The Dean’s December, 144 Bernstein, Charles emergence of, 132 Back and, 198 English Language and, 52 – 53 Cole and, 194 , 198 “Gimpel the Fool” translated by, 495 “The Jew,” 185 – 186 Hebrew translations of, 11 Jewish mysticism and, 189 Henderson the Rain King, 125 Oppen and, 194 Herzog , 125 , 415 , 423 , 478 as a poet, 185 – 187 Humboldt’s Gift, 144 – 145 “Poetry and/or the Sacred,” 184 To Jerusalem and Back, 368 “Recalculating” (poem), 186 – 187 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 Recalculating (poetry volume), 185 – 187 laughter and trembling in, 144 secularity of, 184 – 185 Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 125 , 134 – 135 , 348 , Bernstein, David, 476 360 , 368 , 387 Bernstein, Leonard, 586 – 587 , 595 More Die of Heartbreak, 144 Bérubé, Allan, 549 Mosby’s Memoirs, 125 Best of Olomeinu Back Cover Stories National Book Award won by, 125 (Umesorah), 580 nature and landscape in, 415 The Best Place on Earth: Stories in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 (Tsabari), 445 Nobel prize won by, 368 , 495 – 496 , 629 Bevan, Donald, 251 as a poet, 182 Beyond Ethnicity (Sollors), 5 , 180 , 289 publications of, continuing, 622 Beyond the Fringe (comedy troupe), 584 – 585 Ravelstein , 145 – 146 , 153 Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Ribalow’s literary selections criticized Moynihan), 5 by, 476 Bezmozgis, David, 444 , 481 , 628 – 631 Henry Roth and, 507 – 510 B’gorali [My fate] (Damesk), 507 Philip Roth and, 128 , 130 Biale, David, 183 Seize the Day, 125 Bialik, Chaim Nachman, 284 , 286 , 288 stature of, 3 , 144 Bialik Prize, 190 A Theft, 144 “Big Chief Dynamite” (Noah), 71 The Victim, 137 , 348 , 495 – 496 A Big Jewish Book (Rothenberg), 185 , 189 – 190 Yiddish language and, 498 Bigsby, Christopher, 245 – 246 Ben Ezra synagogue, 330 Biloxi Blues (Neil Simon), 249 – 250 , 252 – 253 Ben Israel, Menasseh, 65 – 67 Bintel Brief (Cahan’s newspaper column), Ben-Ami (Goldfadn), 226 384 , 391 , 451 , 453 Ben-Ami, Jacob, 233 – 234 , 236 Birinski, Leo, 251 Ben-Gurion, David, 282 Birth of a Nation (fi lm), 259 Benjamin, Walter, 492 – 494 Birthright (Maibaum), 250 Benny, Jack, 608 Birthright Israel (educational program), Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 282 373 , 624 Ben-Yosef, Reuven (Robert Eliot Reiss), 295 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Bercovitch, Sacvan, 7 Double-Consciousness, 516 Berg, Gertrude, 608 “Black Boys and Native Sons” (Ellison), 513

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Black Jewish Relations in African American La Boz del Pueblo (Ladino Newspaper), 300 and Jewish American Fiction: An Brand, Oscar, 247 Annotated Bibliography (Adam Brandeis, Louis, 365 – 366 Meyer), 505 Brandstein, Matt, 580 Black Power movement, 494 Bread Givers (Yezierska), 31 , 92 – 94 , 415 Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation Breakthrough: A Treasury of Contemporary (Budick), 516 American Jewish Literature (anthology) blacks in Jewish writing (Malin and Stark, eds.), 477 – 478 , 480 in An American Type, 508 – 510 Brecht, Bertolt, 254 – 255 in Angels in America, 5 1 0– 5 1 1 Brenner, Anita, 474 bibliographies on, 505 – 506 Brice, Fannie, 267 , 269 in Call It Sleep, 508 – 510 “Bridge of Tongues: Why an in The Human Stain, 5 1 0– 5 1 1, 5 1 3– 5 1 4 Arabic-speaking, Baghdad-born Isaac Rosenfeld and, 508 – 510 Jew is a Perfect Guide to the overview, 505 – 517 Modern Canadian Experience” The Plot Against America and, 511 – 512 (Rahimieh), 442 queer identities and, 510 – 511 A Bright Room (Kushner), 254 – 255 as subject matter, 506 – 507 Brighton Beach Memoirs (Neil Simon), in The Tenants, 5 1 1– 5 1 3 252 – 253 See also African Americans; Hebrew Brinig, Myron, 474 literature The Broadway Album (Broadway Blake, William, 195 , 585 – 586 musical), 590 Blank, Samuel (S. L.), 288 , 507 Broadway Bound (Neil Simon), 252 – 253 Blazing Saddles (fi lm), 71 , 422 , 514 – 515 Brod, Harry, 577 Block, Herbert L., 574 Brody, Richard, 629 blocked (complicated) mourning, 352 – 353 The Broken Chain (William Perlman), 246 blood libel, 48 , 173 , 226 Broken Glass (Miller), 245 – 246 Blood on the Moon (Claire and Paul Sifton), 250 Bronfman, Edgar M., 623 Blood Simple (fi lm), 272 Bronfman Youth Fellowship (educational The Bloody Joke ( Der blutiger shpas) (Sholem program), 623 – 626 , 636 Aleichem), 231 – 232 Bronks ekspres ( Bronx Express) (Dymow), Bloom, Allan, 145 233 , 246 Bloore, Stephen, 244 – 245 Brooks, Mel, 71 , 422 , 514 , 589 Blumgarten, Solomon (Yehoash), 205 Brown, Danit, 374 , 634 Boianjiu, Shani, 374 Brown, Joshua, 571 Bonus, Ben, 238 Brown University, 240 – 241 Booth, Clare, 250 Browning, Robert, 532 Borat (fi lm), 514 – 515 Broyard, Anatole, 511 Boreisho, Menakhem, 220 Bruce, Lenny, 609 – 612 , 617 , 619 Borow, Rena, 237 Brukhvarg ( Wreckage) (B. Weinstein), 217 Borowski, Tadeusz, 349 “ B’tzel shehor-’or ” [Light in dark shadow] Borscht Capades (musical revue), 242 (Avinoam), 507 Borukh fun Amsterdam ( Boruch of Buber, Martin, 12 Amsterdam) (Sloves), 237 Bucharest State Yiddish Theater, 238 Bosco, Monique, 441 , 444 Budick, Emily Miller, xi , 14 , 343 – 360 , 508 , Bovshover, Joseph, 203 511 – 512 , 516 Boyarin, Jonathan, 64 Buhle, Paul, 572 – 573 , 578 Boym, Svetlana, 329 “Building Blocks” (Allen Hoff man), Boys in the Band (Crowley), 547 – 548 , 550 387 – 388 , 391 Boyzk, Reizl, 273 Bukiet, Melvin Jules, 481

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Buloff , Joseph, 234 – 235 cinematic infl uences on, 102– 103 Burnett, Dana, 246 – 247 English language in, 54 – 57 Burstyn, Mike, 239 vs. immigrant fi ction, 131 , 133 Butler, Judith, 554 – 555 modernism of, 54 – 57 , 99 – 103 By the Waters of Babylon: Little Poems in Prose narrative voice in, 99 – 103 (Lazarus), 36 – 37 nature in, 415 New York in, 381 – 383 Caan, James, 260 Statue of Liberty in, 99 , 381 – 383 Cabaret Voltaire, 555 – 556 Yiddish and Hebrew in, 498 Caesar, Sid, 608 – 609 Calloway, Cab, 608 – 609 Café Crown (musical theater), 248 Camhi, Morrie, 308 Caff e Cino (off -Broadway theater), 551 Canadian Jewish Chronicle, 439 Cagney, Jimmy, 260 Canadian Jewish writing Cahan, Abraham Canadian Jewish immigration and, Arnold and, 449 – 450 , 452 – 453 , 466 432 – 434 Bintel Brief column of, 384 , 391 , 451 , 453 characteristics defi ning, 444 as chronicler, 451 Christianity and, 433 , 436 Di Tsukunft edited by, 454 écriture migrante in, 442 and the doctrine of interest, 452 – 454 in English, 434 , 438 – 441 , 443 exotic vs. familiar subjects of, 635 expansion of, 443 – 444 as Forverts editor, 50 , 453 – 454 , 496 in French, 434 , 441 – 443 idealism of, 116 Hofer and Kahan in, 419 “Imagined America,” 87 the Holocaust and, 437 , 441 “The Imported Bridegroom,” 51 – 52 , 54 as isolated, 444 – 445 as intellectual, 451 JCA colonies and, 419 – 420 William James and, 457 Jewish belonging and territoriality in, Jewish/American identity of, 460 419 – 422 Judaism and, 453 Jewish writing in the U. S. and, 432 justice themes of, 384 landscape in, 414 – 415 literary infl uences on, 451– 453 LeBreton Flats in, 420 – 421 literary realism of, 454 – 456 marginality as key feature of, 432 Lower East Side and, 385 modernism in, 413 – 414 , 435 – 436 New York in work of, 380 – 381 , 383 multiculturalism and, 433 , 437 Passage from Home and, 105 national identity issues and, 434 pedagogical methods of, 453 – 454 as new direction in Jewish literary Proletarishker Magg id column of, 453 – 454 studies, 413 The Rise of David Levinsky, 50 , 90 – 92 , 105 , overview, 432 – 445 107 – 108 , 131 , 133 , 238 – 239 , 478 Ravvin in, 420 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Sherman in, 420 – 421 socialism of, 90 , 451 – 455 , 465 – 466 in Yiddish, 432 – 438 , 443 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, 5 0– 5 1 See also Bosco, Monique; Golliger, Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and other Gabriella; Kattan, Naïm; Klein, A. M.; stories of the New York Ghetto, 3 8 0– 3 8 1 Mandel, Eli ; Margolis, Rebecca ; Robin, Yiddish language and, 498 Régine; Rosenfarb, Chava; Segal, J. I.; Cahn, Sammy, 597 Tsabari, Ayelet; Wiseman, Adele Caldecott Medal, 585 – 586 Canin, Ethan, 627 – 629 Call It Sleep (Henry Roth) Cantor, Eddie, 71 as aesthetically revolutionary, 99 – 103 Cantor, Jay, 153 – 154 , 156 in anthologies, 473 , 478 – 480 Caplan, Marc, xi , 14 , 601 – 619 black characters in, 508 – 510 Capp, Al (Alfred Caplin), 574 , 592

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Captain America (Kirby), 592 – 593 Chagall, Marc, 356 , 591 , 626 The Caravan Returns: Jewish American “The Chair” (Lamed Shapiro), 406 Literary Anthologies 1935–2010 See Chametzky, Jules, 451 , 482 – 483 Jewish American literary anthologies Chandler, Raymond, 153 , 156 Carlin, George, 611 A Change of World (Rich), 539 Carmi, T., 295 “Channukah” (Reznikoff ), 184 Caroline or Change (Kushner), 253 – 254 Chaplin, Charlie, 46 Carpentier, Alejo, 413 – 414 The Charleston Book: A Miscellany in Prose Carvalho, Solomon Nunes de and Verse (1854 anthology), 525 Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far Chast, Roz, 574 West, 6 9 Chateaubriand, François-René de, 172 indigenousness and, 70 – 71 Chayevsky, Paddy, 240 , 246 , 252 Jewish identity crisis of, 67 – 70 Cheech and Chong (comedy duo), 611 as marrano, 70 “The Cherokee Night” (Riggs), 62 , 72 – 73 Native Americans as viewed Chertok, Haim, 294 b y, 6 7– 7 0 Chester, Alfred, 294 Sephardic ancestry of, 69 Cheuse, Alan, 417 Caspian Rain (Nahai), 332 – 333 , 335 – 336 , 338 Child, Lydia Maria, 68 Casteel, Sarah Philllips, xii , 14 , 73 , 77 , 413 – 428 A Child of the Ghetto (fi lm), 259 – 260 Castro, Michael, 307 C hildren of the Ghetto (Zangwill), 243 Caswell, Lucy Shelton, 574 children’s literature, 585 – 586 Catch-22 (Heller), 125 – 126 Chodorov, Edward, 251 Cather, Willa, 47 “The Choice” (Lazarus), 35 “The Cedars of Lebanon” (Hyneman), 174 Chong, Tommy, 611 Celan, Paul, 354 – 355 The Chosen (novel and fi lm) (Potok), 137 , “Celebrating Jewish American Writers” 272 , 368 (conference), 3 The Chosen People (Nyburg), 107 – 113 The Centaur in the Garden ( O Centauro no Christ. See Jesus Christ jardin) (Scliar), 419 Christian supercessionism, 32 – 33 Center for Jewish History (New York City), Christianity (American) 240 – 241 Michael Gold and, 97 The Centuries (Basshe), 246 – 247 Aciman and, 325 Chabon, Michael American Jews and, 7 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Christmas satirized, 560 – 561 Clay ( See as main heading) Jonathan Edwards and, 171 awards won by, 622 Great Awakening and, 24 , 171 Eisner and, 575 Hebrew history in, 282 , 362 English language in work of, 58 Hebrew writers’ engagement with, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, 291 – 293 348 – 353 the Holy Land and, 362 , 365 – 366 on indigenous identities, 72 on Israelites vs. modern Jews, 8 interest in Jewish comics reignited by, 575 Jewish women writers and, 166 Kirby’s infl uence on, 592– 593 Jews viewed as the Other in, 7 New York in work of, 383 Lazarus and, 533 in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 Lewisohn and, 366 as scholar, 627 in “The Loudest Voice,” 477 territoriality and, 424 – 425 Menken and, 528 Yiddish language and, 498 in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 348 The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, 3 7 5, Morales and, 427 424 – 425 , 635 Native Americans and, 67

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Christianity (American) (cont.) Cohen, Judith, 310 in Passage from Home, 104 Cohen, Leonard, 444 in The Rise of David Levinsky, 110 – 111 Cohen, Matt, 444 in Sunday’s Silence, 338 – 339 Cohn, Roy, 554 Yiddish writing and, 396 – 397 Cold War, 252 , 295 Zion and, 365 – 366 The Cold Wind and the Warm (Behrman), 252 See also Moise, Penina; Puritans Cole, Peter Christianity (Canadian), 433 , 436 Charles Bernstein and, 194 , 198 Christianity (European), 291 – 292 , 326 , 333 , 535 The Invention of Infl uence, 190 Christianity (general) in Israel, 294 Asch and, 496 and Jewish American identity, 190 – 191 Bellow and, 52 – 54 The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from in Call it Sleep, 5 6– 5 7 the Jewish Tradition, 190 in The Chosen People, 110 “The Reluctant Kabbalist’s Sonnet,” in The Day Will Come, 2 5 1 191 – 192 Hebraist respect for, 282 , 291 – 293 “Song of the Shattering Vessels,” 192 Hersey and, 126 Colton, John, 549 the Holy Land and, 29 , 170 – 171 Columbus, Christopher, 36 Hyneman and, 171 – 173 The Combat of the People; or, Hillel and Herod in the Idea of America, 24 – 25 (Wise), 31 the inzikhists and, 207 – 208 comic books. See Jewish American comic Jesus is Magic and, 617 , 619 books and graphic novels Judeo-Christian civilization and, 408 comix (alternative comic books), 567 in modern literary culture, 182 – 183 Commentary (monthly review), 106 , 131 , 449 , multiculturalism and, 73 – 74 , 168 511 , 592 Rich and, 543 Commercial Advertiser (newspaper), 452 traditional Jewish identity and, 24 – 25 Common Ground (Chodorov), 251 in Welcome Stranger, 249 communism and communists, 237 , See also Apess, William; Montezinos, 405 – 406 , 459 Antonio de Communist Party, 47 , 71 – 72 , 212 – 213 , 449 “Ch’vil Schreiben a Poem Auf Yiddish” “Companion” (Krasikov), 630 (Osherow), 188 complicated (blocked) mourning, 352 – 353 Circle Lodge (performance venue), 239 Concerto in F (Gershwin), 586 – 587 City of Glass (Auster), 153 A Contract With God (Eisner), 568 , 570 – 571 City of God (Doctorow), 386 – 387 Conversations with My Father (Gardner), 252 “City Visions” (Lazarus), 176 “The Conversion of the Jews” (Philip CityLore (cultural heritage organization), Roth), 128 240 – 241 conversos (Jews converted to Christianity), Civil Rights movement, 568 65 – 66 Claremont, Chris, 577 See also marranos Classical Barbra (Streisand album), 590 “The Convert” (Wise), 30 – 32 Cleaver, Eldridge, 508 Cooper, Adrienne, 561 – 562 Clermont-Tonnerre, Stanislas de, 67 Cooper, James Fenimore, 47 Clockers (Richard Price), 154 – 155 Cooper, Shari Susan Friedman, 436 Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan Cohn), 226 , Cooper, T, 634 2 5 9, 2 7 2– 2 7 5 Corbin, John, 243 – 244 Cohen, Arthur A., 477 The Cosmopolitans (Kalman), 630 Cohen, Elliott, 106 – 107 The Cost of Sugar ( How duur was de suiker?) Cohen, Gerson, 293 (McLeod), 417 Cohen, Joshua, 628 Cottrell, Sophie, 632

682

Index

Counsellor at Law (Rice), 244 The Dean’s December (Bellow), 144 The Counterlife (Philip Roth), 347 , 368 – 369 Dear Me The Sky Is Falling (Spigelgass), 252 The Covenant (Ragen), 375 Dearborn Independent (newspaper), 262 , 266 Cowper, William, 195 Death of a Salesman (Miller), 245 – 246 Crackpot (Wiseman), 440 The Death of Che Guevara (Jay Cantor), 153 Crevecoeur, Hector St. John De, 24 , Decker, Henry, 253 – 254 27 – 28 , 33 , 37 Declaration of Independence, 24 , 32 , 68 – 69 The Cross and the Pear Tree (Perera), 308 “Defender of the Faith” (Philip Roth), 128 Crossing Delancey (fi lm), 273 Delman, Carmit, 634 Crouch, Stanley, 511 – 512 Delos: A Journal On and Of Translation, Crowley, Mart, 547 – 548 , 550 4 9 3– 4 9 4 Crown Heights riot, 514 Demblin, B., 408 – 409 Crumb. R., 576 Demjanjuk trials, 347 Cry of the Peacock (Nahai), 338 “Democracy versus the Melting Pot” Cuban-American exile literature, 336 (Kallen), 5 Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 449 – 450 the Depression, 131 , 219 , 234 , 250 , 567 , A Curable Romantic (Skibell), 628 570 , 575 Curb Your Enthusiasm (television series), Deresiewicz, William, 635 5 1 3– 5 1 5 Derrida, Jacques, 12 , 329 “A Cycle of Manhattan” (Winslow), 476 – 477 Des Pres, Terrence, 571 The Desert Dwellers (Rochlin), 422 Dabashi, Hamid, 334 The Destiny of Me (Kramer), 553 Dada (modernist art movement), 555 – 556 Deutsch, Barry, 579 – 580 Dale, Mary, 264 , 266 DeVidas Kirchheimer, Gloria, 307 Damesek, Shlomo, 507 Dewey, John, 451 , 457 – 458 , 466 Dancing on Tisha B’Av (Raphael), 358 Di yunge (The Young Ones) (Yiddish poets Dangling Man (Bellow), 125 , 495 – 496 group) Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), 112 – 114 , Dropkin and, 536 116 , 365 emergence of, 205 , 215 , 399 Darion, Joe, 588 Halpern and, 209 , 216 Dark Horse Comics, 575 impressionism among, 217 Darwin, Charles, 454 – 455 vs. Inzikh, 206 – 209 Daughters of Bilitis (lesbian support Leivick vs., 209 group), 550 Leyb and, 206 – 207 David, Esther, 634 Leyeles as founder of, 207 David, Larry, 513 – 514 , 617 Lower East Side and, 205 Davis, Marni, 261 minimalism of, 207 – 208 Davis, Moshe, 293 Opatoshu and, 401 Davis, Vanessa, 579 and the press, 212 Dawidowicz, Lucy, 473 prose writers among, 399 – 403 “The Day of Atonement” (Raphaelson), 31 J. I. Segal and, 435 The Day of the Locust (West), 262 symbolist imagery in, 404 The Day Will Come (Brinski), 251 The Dialogues of Time and Entropy Dayksel, S., 71 (Stollman), 373 – 374 Days of Awe (Obejas), 57 – 58 , 634 The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), 349 DC Comics, 567 , 575 The Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and De Costa, Leon, 247 – 248 Hackett), 244 – 245 , 252 , 550 de Man, Paul, 492 the Diaspora Dead Mother; or Shirley not All in Vain African diaspora, 629 (Greenspan), 552 in The Counterlife, 369

683

Index

the Diaspora (cont.) doctrine of interest, 452 – 454 of Egyptian Jews, 325 , 327 “Does the English Department in Der eybiker vanderer ( The Eternal Have a Jewish Problem?” (MLA Wanderer), 233 symposium), 3 in Farewell to Salonica, 302 – 303 Dogpatch, USA (theme park), 592 fi ction developing from, 374 Dolitzky, Menahem Mendel, 282 , 497 Glidden and, 373 Doña Gracia de Nasi, 314 of Iranian Jews, 330 , 336 Donen, Stanley (Mordecai Moses Israeli Americans’ identity and, 374 Donen), 595 in Jewish and Native Studies, 74 Dorris, Michael, 72 Jewish belonging and, 67 Dos gezang fun neger [The song of the Ladino developing in, 298 Negro] (Bagish), 507 Lazarus and, 534 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 234 – 235 in Mazel, 387 The Dove Keeper ( Criador de palomas) and New York City, 387 (Goloboff ), 421 in Remedios, 426 – 427 Dr. Fish (Schisgal), 247 responses to, renewed, 364 Drama Desk Awards, 240 – 241 Rosenfarb and, 438 Drawn and Quarterly, 566 Philip Roth and, 141 , 347 – 348 , 369 , 372 Dream Homes (Zonana), 324 diasporism, 347 – 348 Dreiser, Theodore, 244 – 245 , 457 Dickens, Charles, 48 , 51 – 52 , 95 Drescher, Fran, 617 Dickstein, Morris, 3 , 144 , 149 , 156 Dreyfus aff air, 151 , 226 Direction (magazine), 591 Driving Miss Daisy (Uhry), 253 , 514 Dirty Dancing (fi lm), 272 Dropkin, Celia The Disappearance of the Jews (Mamet), 252 Ashkenazi Judaism and, 539 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews biographical sketch of, 536 (Noah), 29 – 30 Di yunge and, 536 Discourses on the Evidences of the American feminism of, 536 – 539 Indians Being the Descendants of the Ten gender poetics of, 218 , 525 , 536 – 539 Lost Tribes of Israel (Noah), 68 In heysn vint: lider, dertseylungen, bilder Disguised As Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the (In the Hot Wind: Poems, Stories, Creation of the Superhero (Fingeroth), 577 Paintings), 536 Disney, Walt, 585 – 586 , 592 , 594 “Odem” (Adam), 537 – 539 dispensationalism, 32 , 35 , 37 rebelliousness of, 536 – 539 Disraeli (fi lm), 263 sexuality and, 536 – 539 Dissent Magazine (American quarterly), as translator, 536 511 , 516 “ Di tsirkus dame ” (The Circus Lady), dissimilation, 114 , 116 536 – 537 Diving into the Wreck (Rich), 539 – 540 Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood Dluzhnovsky, Moyshe, 237 – 238 (Eisner), 570 Dobrushin, Y., 215 Drought (Flanagan), 234 Doctorow, E. L. Drucker, Mort, 574 at Princeton conference, 3 , 624 – 625 Drumont, Édouard, 266 City of God, 386 – 387 Dudek, Louis, 439 Jewishness in work of, 627 Dumas, Alexandre, fi ls, 228 New York in work of, 383 Dunham, Lena, 275 – 276 as professor, 627 “Duvid Crockett, King of Delancey Street” Ragtime , 1 4 7– 1 4 8 (Mickey Katz), 605 – 608 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 The Dybbuk (Ansky), 237 , 240 , 246 , 558 stature of, 144 A Dybbuk (Kushner), 246 , 558

684

Index

Dylan, Bob, 595 Jewish American comics development Dymow, Osip (Yoseph Perelman), 233 , and, 576 240 , 246 A Life Force, 570 The Plot, 593 East and West (fi lm), 270 on religion, 570 East River (Asch), 408 – 409 The Spirit created by, 569 , 593 East Wind (Ellis), 370 To the Heart of the Storm, 5 7 0 “Echoes” (Lazarus), 176 , 536 “ El ha kushit ” (To the Negress) Eco, Umberto, 593 (Halkin), 507 Edel, Leon, 439 “ El khanun” (God of Mercy) Edelstadt, David, 203 (Molodovsky), 494 – 495 Edison, Thomas, 261 – 262 Elberg, Yehuda, 443 Edison Trust, 261 – 262 Ele toldot adam (In the Grip of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Cross-Currents) (Lisitzky), 291 – 292 (Brand and Nassau), 247 “Eli, the Fanatic” (Philip Roth), 41 , 345 , Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 627 , 633 4 7 7– 4 7 8 Edwards, Jonathan, 171 Eliot, George Efros, Israel, 290 Daniel Deronda, 112 – 114 , 116 , 365 Egyptian Jews Graetz and, 113 Alexandria and, 323 , 325 – 326 , 328 – 329 , 427 Nyburg and, 108 Arab identity and, 327 Zionism of, 114 , 365 Arab/Muslim distancing from, 320 – 321 Eliot, T. S., 182 , 439 , 592 Cairo and, 322 , 324 , 326 – 327 , 329 – 330 Elishe ben Avuye (Gordin), 228 converting to Christianity, 325 – 326 Elkin, Judith Laikin, 64 exiled in Europe, 323 – 324 , 326 Elkin, Stanley, 144 , 146 – 147 , 507 – 508 exiled in the U. S., 324 – 329 Ellis, Julie, 370 Jewish belonging and, 322 , 324 Ellison, Ralph, 506 , 511 – 513 , 515 – 516 memoirs and remembrances in writings Elovich, Richard, 556 of, 321 – 324 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 34 , 52 , 178 , 184 , 414 , returning home in narratives 532 , 585 of, 329 – 330 Empathy (Sarah Schulman), 552 Erdrich, Louise, 72 encountering English. See English Eichelbaum, Samuel, 419 , 421 language Eichmann, Adolph, 244 – 245 , 343 – 344 Endgame (Beckett), 588 Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 157 Enemies: A Love Story (I. B. Singer), 410 Einbinder, Gershon. See Paver, Chaver Enemies: A Love Story (Schulman Eiselein, Gregory, 527 , 531 – 532 adaptation), 558 Eisen, Arnold, 24 Englander, Itta Chana, 553 Eisenstein, Bernice, 578 Englander, Nathan “ Eish zarah ” [Strange fi re] (Blank), 507 emergence of, 622 Eisner, Will For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, 632 American Jewish comics status and, 573 I’m Not Like You, 553 at Princeton conference, 3 Jewish Book Council’s support for, 632 Bronx Cycle of, 570 – 571 The Ministry of Special Cases, 635 Chabon and, 575 in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 A Contract With God, 568 , 570 – 571 religious practice and, 634 Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, 570 “Sister Hills,” 371 – 372 early career of, 569 “The Tumblers,” 360 graphic style of, 570 What We Talk about When We Talk about Holocaust-themed work of, 578 Anne Frank, 346 , 371 – 372

685

Index

English language Esther (Jewish Persian queen), 332 , 529 , in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & 555 , 561 Clay, 159 – 160 See also Purim Antin and, 52 , 58 , 89 Estrin, Leibel, 580 Bellow’s love of, 52 – 53 The Eternal Road (Werfel), 251 – 252 in Cahan’s work, 50 – 52 , 58 The Ethnic Canon (Palumbo-Liu), 6 in Call It Sleep, 5 4– 5 7 ethnic revival, 267 , 271 – 272 in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl, 95 ethnicity in Henry Roth’s work, 54 – 57 in academic studies/curricula, 4 Jewish identity and, 25 assimilation vs., 148 – 149 Kazin’s love of, 53 – 54 in Canada, 432 – 433 , 437 – 438 in David Mendelsohn’s work, 57 Cuban-Jewish, 510 in Obejas’s work, 57 – 58 cultural pluralism and, 9 overview, 41 – 58 defi ning ethnicity, 4 Ozick and, 54 ethnic diversity, 179 – 180 , 401 , 494 in Philip Roth’s work, 41 – 44 , 52 ethos vs., 22 in Raboy’s work, 44 – 46 in fi lms, 258 – 259 , 262 – 263 , 266 vs. religious ancestral language, 43 fi nancial success and, 596 in The Rise of David Levinsky, 50 , 90 – 92 in Herzog, 125 in Sholem Aleichem’s work, 44 – 46 Jewish American popular culture Wise writing in, 22 and, 567 – 568 , 570 , 575 – 577 , 584 – 585 written vs. spoken, 43 Jewish-Korean, 510 Enlightenment (European), 10 , 23 – 24 , 67 , in Jewish/Yiddish drama, 225 – 226 , 237 , 166 – 168 242 – 243 , 248 – 250 , 252 – 253 Enlightenment ( Haskalah; Jewish Kallen on, 5 , 9 Enlightenment), 281 – 282 , Lazarus’s views of, 175 , 177 , 180 284 – 288 , 471 limitations of, 7 Enlightenment universalism, 67 , 71 , 169 Mahrwood Press and, 580 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Moise and, 165 – 166 , 168 – 169 (Paley), 147 Raboy’s views of, 46 – 48 “Envy; or Yiddish in America” (Ozick), sexuality and, 559 125 – 126 , 134 – 135 , 489 as a social virtue, 137 Episodes (television series), 258 Sollors on, 5 , 180 , 289 An Epistle to the Hebrews (Lazarus), 35 , 365 See also Cahan, Abraham; Jewish humor La Époka de Nu York (Ladino in America ; Jewish Middle Eastern Newspaper), 300 pasts; Jewish writing in New York; “Epstein” (Philip Roth), 128 – 129 Ladino in the U. S.; Roth, Philip; Yentl Epstein, Alvin, 259 Eugenides, Jeff r e y, 1 4 5, 6 2 4 Epstein, Leslie, 627 Even-Zohar, Itamar, 493 The Era of the Messiah ( Moshiakhs tsaytn) Evergreen (Plain), 370 (Asch), 232 Everything Is Illuminated (Foer), 356 – 357 , Erens, Patricia, 263 359 – 360 , 391 , 624 – 625 The Escapist (as published comic), 575 Exiled in the World (Rothenberg), 189 – 190 The Escapist (superhero), 159 – 160 , Exit Ghost (Philip Roth), 346 5 74– 5 7 5 Exit Wounds (Modan), 374 Eselin, Alter, 507 “The Exodus” (Lazarus), 36 – 37 Esperanca de Israel (Ben Israel), 65 – 67 Exodus (novel and fi lm) (Uris), 126 , 272 , 343 , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center 367 – 368 , 591 (non-commercial theater space), 555 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer), Esther (Biblical book), 224 355 – 356 , 359 – 360 , 391

686

Index

Der eybiker vanderer ( The Eternal Wanderer) of Lagnado, 324 (Dymow), 233 of Lazarus, 536 Ezra, Moses Ibn, 176 of Menken, 527 , 529 of Morales, 427 Fabyus Lind (Leyeles), 218 – 219 of Mossanen, 338 The Facts (Philip Roth), 149 of Piercy, 539 – 545 “Falling in Line” (Angel), 305 – 307 of queer performers, 555 Falsettoland (Finn), 254 of Rich, 370 , 539 – 545 Falsettos (Finn and Lepine), 553 in Roiphe’s work, 369 – 370 ( Di falshe tsvue [ The False Vow]) Lateiner, 233 Yentl and, 267 , 269 – 272 The Family Moskat (I. B. Singer), 124 – 125 , 495 of Zierler, 470 “Family Pictures: Maus , Mourning, and See also gender poetics Post-Memory” (Marianne Hirsch), 572 Ferber, Edna, 126 , 474 , 478 , 507 – 508 Di familye Tsvi/ Der letster yid ( The Tsvi Fibi (Ignatov), 366 , 400 Family/ The Last Jew) (David Pinski), 232 Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway musical), Der fanatik, oder di beyde Kuni-Lemls ( The 231 – 232 , 243 , 268 , 550 , 588 – 589 Fanatic; or, The Two Kuni-Lemls,1887) Fiedler, Leslie, 88 , 91 , 245 – 246 , 477 – 478 , (Goldfadn), 225 507 – 508 Fantagraphics (comic book press), 566 Fierstein, Harvey, 254 , 551 – 552 The Far Euphrates (Stollman), 358 – 360 The Fifth Season (Regan), 247 – 248 Farewell to Salonica (Sciaky), 301 – 302 fi lm. See Jews and fi lm Farmelant, Chana, 293 – 294 The Final Solution: A Story of Detection Farouk (king), 324 (Chabon), 348 – 353 Farrakhan, Louis, 514 Fingeroth, Danny, 577 fascism, 72 , 250 – 251 , 386 , 406 Finkel, Fyvush, 239 – 240 , 273 Fast, Howard, 71 – 72 , 126 Finn, William, 254 , 553 Faulkner, William, 115 , 592 Finney, Charles Grandison, 29 Fauset, Jessie, 507 – 508 Firestone, Shulamith, 267 Feather, Leonard, 585 The First of the Maccabees (Wise), 31 Federal Theater Project, 234 First Statement poets (Canadian poets Federalist Papers, 28 group), 439 Feiff er, Jules, 3 , 572 – 574 , 592 Fishback, Dan, 558 – 559 Feinman, Dina Stettin Adler, 226 Fishl Bimko Yiddish Theaterworks, 238 Felder, Sara, 556 – 557 Fishman, Joshua, 494 Feldstein, Al, 574 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 47 , 258 – 259 Felstiner, John, 482 – 483 The Five Lesbian Brothers (theatrical “Female Scriptural Characters” troupe), 557 (Hyneman), 172 T he Fixer (Malamud), 125 , 135 feminism A Flag Is Born (Hecht), 251 – 252 of Aroeste, 314 “A Flag is Born” (pageant theme), 367 Cohn brothers and, 275 Flanagan, Hallie, 234 in comic books and graphic novels, 568 Flanzbaum, Hilene, 482 – 484 of Dropkin, 536 – 539 Fleg, Edmond, 472 feminist literary recovery project, 470 , Fleischmann family, 596 477 – 478 Flight to the West (Rice), 250 – 251 Fiddler on the Roof and, 268 Florida Atlantic University, 240 – 241 The Gentile Wife and, 244 Flying Down to Rio (fi lm), 595 in Jewish American drama, 253 Foer, Jonathan Safran Jewish American drama and, 253 educational opportunities of, 623 – 628 of Jewish anthologists, 478 , 482 emergence of, 622

687

Index

Foer, Jonathan Safran (cont.) Frank, Anne, 345 – 347 , 349 Everything Is Illuminated, 356 – 357 , 359 – 360 , See also The Diary of Anne Frank; What 391 , 624 – 625 We Talk about When We Talk about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 356 , Anne Frank 359 – 360 , 391 Frank, Waldo, 476 – 477 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 Franks, Helena, 497 literary family of, 636 – 637 Frayhayt (Yiddish newspaper), 212 – 213 , 234 in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 Freedman, Jonathan, xii , 7 , 13 , 77 , Skibell and, 628 258 – 276 , 515 Tree of Codes, 348 – 349 , 351 Freedman, Marcia, 294 Folklore in the Poetry of A. M. Klein Freidan, Betty, 267 (Waddington), 440 Fremont, John, 69 – 70 Folksbiene People’s Stage, 234 – 235 , Freud, Sigmund, 326 , 344 – 345 , 352 , 449 , 458 , 237 – 239 460 , 466 Follies (Broadway musical), 589 – 590 Freud and the Non-European (Said), 326 The Food Chain (Nicky Silver), 552 Freund, Karl, 263 For Elise (Zellnik), 552 – 553 Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (Kemelman), 126 For Pete’s Sake (fi lm), 270 Friedman, Bruce Jay, 507 – 508 For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Nathan Friend, Robert, 294 Englander), 632 Friendly Enemies (Hoff man and Shipman), Ford, Henry, 262 – 263 248 – 250 Foreign Bodies (Ozick), 54 The Frisco Kid (fi lm), 71 Foreigners , 331 – 332 From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic The 49th Cousin (Francke and Books (Arie Kaplan), 577 Lowe), 242 From Plotsk to Boston (Antin), 89 , 498 Forty Five Seconds to Broadway (Neil Simon), The Front (fi lm), 272 252 – 253 Le front de l’art (Valland), 627 Forverts ( Forward) (Yiddish newspaper) Frost, Robert, 287 Cahan as editor of, 50 , 453 – 454 , 496 Fuchs, Daniel, 507 – 508 , 628 – 629 comic strips in, 574 Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels), 354 – 356 Frayhayt and, 212 – 213 Funny Girl (fi lm), 267 , 550 as largest Yiddish newspaper, 283 “The Future of Jewish American Literary Leivick in, 212 Studies” (MELUS publication), 4 as literary publication, 407 The Nazarene in, 496 Gabel, Max, 233 I. B. Singer published in, 124 – 125 Gabirol, Ibn, 34 Di tsukunft and, 213 Gabler, Neil, 258 , 262 Yiddish language in, 453 – 454 Gadol, Moïse, 298 – 299 See also The Jewish Daily Forward Galchen, Rivka, 628 – 629 The Forward (Yiddish newspaper) See also Galsworthy, John, 549 Jewish Daily Forward Garcia, Cristina, 336 Fouad (king), 324 Gardner, Herb, 252 – 254 , 514 Four Walls (Abbot and Burnett), 246 – 247 Garfi eld, John, 263 “1492” (Lazarus), 1 , 9 , 535 Garrett, Oliver H. P., 250 “1492” (song), 312 gay sexuality. See homosexuality ; Fourth of July, 32 lesbianism ; LGBT themes; queer Fox, William, 262 performance in American theater The Franchiser (Elkin), 146 – 147 “ Geburt” [Birth] (Eselin), 507 Francisco (native guide), 65 – 66 Der gedungene khosn ( The Hired Bridegroom) Franco, Dean, 6 , 568 (Dymow), 233

688

Index

gender poetics Glaser, Jennifer, 76 in America and I, 482 Glass, Montague, 243 – 244 Biblical/liturgical contexts for, 525 Glatstein, Jacob (Yankev Glatshteyn) of Dropkin, 218 , 525 , 536 – 539 “ A gute nakht, velt ” (“Good Night, the female body in, 525 World”), 209 – 210 , 219 – 220 , 493 – 494 of Lazarus, 170 , 176 , 179 – 180 , 525 , 535 – 536 genres in the work of, 212 , 214 of Menken, 525 , 527 – 532 Inzikh and, 207 of Moise, 525 – 527 , 532 as modernist, 217 overview, 525 – 545 “ 1919,” 208 – 209 of Piercy, 525 , 539 , 543 – 545 Ozick and, 489 of Rich, 525 , 539 – 543 on poetry and the press, 212 in Yiddish American poetry, 539 Yidishtaytshn , 2 1 9 See also feminism Glazer, Nathan, 5 The Gentile Wife (Wellman), 244 Gleanings: A Diary in Verse (Nachman Gentleman’s Agreement (fi lm), 263 Syrkin), 367 Gentleman’s Agreement (Hobson), 126 Glickman, Mary, 634 Gerchunoff , Alberto, 418 – 419 Glickman, Nora, 419 German Expressionism, 287 Glidden, Sarah, 373 “The German Refugee” (Malamud), 135 The Glines (off -Broadway theater), 551 – 552 Gershwin, George, 586 – 587 Glück, Louise, 636 “ Der geyer” (Boreisho), 220 Glusberg, Samuel, 474 the ghost of the Holocaust, overview, 344 – 360 Go West (fi lm), 422 The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth), 149 – 150 , 158 , God of Vengeance ( Got fun nekome) (Asch), 344 – 347 , 349 232 , 246 , 549 , 554 , 558 Ghosts (Auster), 153 The Godfather (fi lm), 260 Giant (Ferber), 126 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 228 “Giant Puppet Purim Ball Against Goff man, Ethan, 516 the Death Penalty” (Purimspil Gold, Michael performance), 561 – 562 Antin and, 90 , 97 – 98 Gideon (Chayevsky), 252 in A Golden Treasury, 4 74 gift exchange (ritual), 75 – 76 immigration and modernity for, 97 – 99 “Gifts” (Lazarus), 35 Jews as viewed by, 97 – 98 Gillespie, Dizzy, 609 Jews Without Money, 97 – 99 , 415 , 507 – 508 Gilroy, Paul, 516 nature and landscape in work of, 415 “Gimpel the Fool” (“Gimpel Tam”) (I. B. radicalism of, 71 – 72 , 97 – 98 Singer), 124 – 125 , 237 , 495 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Ginsberg, Allen, 182 , 507 – 508 socialism and, 97 Ginzburg, Shimon (Simon) Goldberg, Levy, 507 “ Bamigdal” (In the Tower), 285 Goldberg, Myla, 622 “ Behar bet Kolombiyah ” (On the Temple Goldberg, Rube, 574 Mount of Columbia), 286 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Israel in dream visions of, 285 – 286 Emerging Writers, 633 “ Joe,” 507 Goldberg Street (Mamet), 252 “ La’ivrim ba’Ameriqah ” (To the Hebraists Goldembarg, Isaac, 66 – 67 in America), 292 Golden Land (Mlotek and Moishe “ No-York,” 286 , 288 , 290 , 507 Rosenfeld), 239 – 240 Statue of Liberty and, 285 A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature Zion and, 286 (anthology) (Schwarz, ed,) Girl Unwrapped (Golliger), 445 American Jewish writing represented Girls (television series), 276 in, 474

689

Index

A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature “Good Night, World” (Glatshteyn), (anthology) (Schwarz, ed,) (cont.) 4 9 3– 4 9 4 Antin in, 474 Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth), 125 , as Jewish Caravan sequel, 473 – 474 127 – 129 , 148 – 149 , 345 Meyer Levin in, 474 Goodman, Allegra, 158 – 159 , 369 – 370 , Noah in, 474 628 – 629 , 634 “Our Native Land” collection in, 474 Goodman, Paul, 477 writers included in, 474 Goodrich, Frances, 244 – 245 , 550 Di goldene keyt (Rosenfarb), 438 Gordin, Jacob Di goldene pave (“The Golden Peacock”) actors’ relationships with, 229 (Halpern), 216 death of, 230 Goldenreich, Gloria, 370 Elishe ben Avuye, 228 Goldfadn, Avrom Goldfadn and, 231 acting school founded by, 227 Got, mentsh, un tayvl ( God, Man, and Bar-Kokhba, der zun fun dem shtern oder di Devil), 228 , 238 – 240 , 246 letste teg fun Yerusholayim ( Bar-Kokhba, Hershele Ostropolyer, 238 – 239 Son of the Star; or, The Last Days of On a heym ( Without a Home), 228 Jerusalem), 225 Kraytser sonate ( Kreutzer Sonata), Ben-Ami , 226 228 – 229 , 236 death of, 230 Mirele Efros, 228 , 237 , 240 Der fanatik, oder di beyde Kuni-Lemls political goals of, 228 ( The Fanatic; or, The Two Safo (S appho), 228 Kuni-Lemls,1887), 225 Siberye ( Siberia), 227 Gordin and, 231 Yiddish American drama’s Golden Age Di kishuf-makherin ( The Sorceress/ The and, 227 – 228 Witch), 225 Gordis, Daniel, 294 plays of, revived, 231 Gordon, Judah Leib, 282 Shmendrik , 225 Gorki, Maxim, 228 , 234 Shulamis , 225 , 237 , 239 – 240 Got, mentsh, un tayvl ( God, Man, and Devil) “Goldie, A Neurotic Woman” (Aline and R. (Gordin), 228 , 238 – 240 , 246 Crumb), 576 Gottheil, Gustav, 34 Goldin, Farideh, 332 , 334 – 335 Gottlieb, Adolph, 591 Goldman, Isaac, 397 Gould, Glenn, 590 Goldstein, Gus, 601 – 605 , 608 Der goylem. See The Golem Goldstein, Naama, 373 Grabau, Amadeus, 90 Goldstein, Rebecca, 151 – 152 , 383 , 387 , Gracia (Sarah Aroeste album), 313 393 – 394 Gracia de Nasi, Doña, 314 Goldstein, Yael, 389 Grade, Chaim, 188 , 210 , 234 – 235 Goldstein-Karp, Sophie, 226 Graetz, Heinrich, 112 – 113 Goldwaser, Rafael, 237 – 238 Grammy Awards, 589 – 590 The Golem ( Der goylem) (Leivick), 214 , “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by 216 – 217 , 232 , 240 Jewish Women” (exhibition), 579 Golem of Prague, 353 , 575 graphic novels. See Jewish American comic The Golem’s Mighty Swing books and graphic novels (Sturm), 579 – 580 Gratz, Rebecca, 173 – 174 Golems of Gotham (Rosenbaum), 353 – 356 The Great American Novel (Philip Roth), Golliger, Gabriella, 445 1 4 8– 1 4 9 Goloboff , Mario, 421 Great Awakening, 24 , 171 Gombrich, E. H., 594 Great House (Krauss), 352 – 353 , 357 Gone to Soldiers (Piercy), 370 Great Migration, 10

690

Index

Great Neck (Jay Cantor), 153 – 154 Halkin, Shimon (Simon) Green, Jacob Jeff r e y, 2 9 5 Ad mashber (Until the Crash), 288 , 291 – 292 Green Fields (fi lm), 235 “ Al hof Santa Barbara ” [On the Shore at Green Grow the Lilacs (Riggs), 62 Santa Barbara] (Halkin), 285 Greenberg, Eliezer, 478 , 498 – 499 , 541 – 542 on American Hebrew poetry, 289 – 290 Greenberg, Hayim, 367 American landscapes and, 284 – 285 Greenberg, Richard, 552 “ El ha kushit” [To the Negress], 507 Greenberg, Uri Zvi, 288 free verse poems by, 288 Greenspan, David, 552 , 555 “Mar’ot beNovah Sqotyah” (Visions in Greenstein, Michael, 432 – 433 Nova Scotia), 285 The Grey Zone (Nelson), 254 – 255 nature and landscape in, 285 Griffi th, D. W., 259 – 263 Palestine and, 284 – 285 , 289 – 290 Griffi th, Melanie, 272 Pizmon kushi” [Negro melody], 507 Grine felder (Green Fields) “ Tarshishah” (To Tarshish), 285 (Hirschbein), 232 Halpern, Moyshe Leyb Di grinhorns, oder Mishke un Moshke ( The “ A nakht” (”Night”), 215 – 216 Greenhorns; or, Mishke and Moshke) background of, 205 – 206 (Lateiner), 225 – 226 Di yunge and, 209 , 216 Gross, Joel, 627 Di goldene pave ( The Golden Peacock), 216 Gross, Milt, 574 Inzikh and, 216 Grossman, Allen, 194 – 196 Leyb and, 206 Grossman, David, 348 – 349 as modernist, 215 , 217 Group of Seven (Canadian modernist In New York, 215 – 216 group), 413 – 414 as poet of protest, 214 Gun with Occasional Music (Lethem), poetic style of, 206 155 – 156 publishing in newspapers, 212 gypsies, 358 Der Hammer (Yiddish monthly publication), 71 “ Ha msibah shel Charlie Parker” [Charlie Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 589 – 590 Parker’s party], 507 “ Hamtanah lamahar ha’atomi” (Waiting El Hablador ( The Storyteller) (Llosa), 66 – 67 for the Atomic Tomorrow) (Preil), “Habondia” (Piercy), 543 295 – 296 “ Habrehah laYurika” ( The Flight to Eureka) Hans Christian Andersen Medal, 585 – 586 (Sackler), 292 Hanukkah in the Back Country (Meiskin), 552 Hackett, Albert, 244 – 245 , 550 Hapgood, Hutchins, 497 – 498 Hado’ar (The Post) (Hebrew newspaper), “ Haquqot otiyotayikh ” (“Engraved are Your 282 – 283 , 293 , 475 Letters”) (Regelson), 283 – 284 Hador (The Generation) (Hebrew annual Harby, Isaac, 243 publication), 293 Hard to Be a Jew ( Shver tsu zayn a yid) Hadror (the Swallow) (Hebrew (Sholem Aleichem), 231 – 232 , 247 – 248 journal), 282 Harem (Mossanen), 332 – 333 , 338 Hafez (Persian national poet), 334 – 335 Harmon, Joshua, 255 Hakak, Lev, 293 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, 633 Hakakian, Roya, 331 – 333 , 335 Harshav, Barbara, 495 HaLevi, Yehuda (Judah HaLevi), 9 , 34 , 176 , Harshav, Benjamin, 12 , 495 204 – 205 Hartman, Geoff r e y, 1 2 Halevy, Avraham Tzvi (Avraham Zvi Hartog, Jan de, 244 – 245 Halevi), 286 , 507 Harvard Square (Aciman), 327 – 329 Halfon, Eduardo, 634 Harvard University, 240 – 241 Halkin, Hillel, 294 Harvy, Isaac, 165 – 166

691

Index

Hasidic Judaism, 89 , 137 , 285 , 290 , 337 , 400 , blacks as subjects in, 506 – 507 407 , 435 , 552 – 553 , 635 conservatism of, 287 – 288 Hatfi eld, Charles, 566 – 567 in Hado’ar, 282 – 283 “Hatikvah” (Imber), 282 as international, 281 – 282 Hatoren ( The Mast) (Hebrew journal), 282 in Israel, 375 – 376 Haunch, Paunch and Jowl: An Anonymous in The Jewish Anthology, 4 7 2 Autobiography (Ornitz), 94 – 96 A. M. Klein and, 439 Hauptmann, Gerhart, 228 vs. mainstream American Jewish Havazelet, Ehud, 627 culture, 294 “ Hazayot boker ” [Morning phantoms] national identity issues and, 289 (Wallenrod), 507 Native American culture and, 290 – 291 “Hear, O Israel!” (Menken), 528 – 529 prose fi ction in, 288 Hebraism Hebrew newspapers, 282 – 283 African Americans respected in, 291 Hebrew poetry Christianity and, 282 , 291 – 293 by American-born poets, 217 , 293 – 294 decline of, in America, 293 – 294 Andalusian, 191 educational programs of, 283 , 293 Back and, 197 – 198 global scattering of, 281 – 282 Ben-Yosef and, 295 Hebrew language and, 281 , 284 conservatism of, 287 – 288 Israel and, 283 Halkin on, 289 – 290 Jewishness of, tested, 292 – 293 infl uences on, 289– 290 vs. mainstream American Jewish modernism in, 284 – 288 culture, 294 Native Americans in, 71 – 72 , 290 – 291 vs. modernism, 287 – 288 Preil on, 217 Palestine and, 281 , 287 – 289 Zvi and, 294 pluralism and, 288 Hecht, Ben, 251 – 252 , 367 World War Two and, 292 Heeb Magazine, 633 Zionism and, 281 – 282 , 288 Heebster Jews, 559 – 562 Hebrew (Opatoshu), 401 Heft, Harold, 517 The Hebrew Actors Union, 233 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 34 , 458 Hebrew Andalusian poetry, 191 The Heidi Chronicles (Wasserstein), 253 Hebrew journals, 282 , 289 , 293 Heifetz, Jascha, 586 – 587 Hebrew language Hein, David, 552 Bellow translated into, 11 Heine, Heinrich, 9 , 204 – 206 , 498 , as erotic, 283 – 284 532 , 535 in Exit Wounds, 374 Heinze, Andrew, 265 God in, 284 Heller, Joseph, 125 – 126 , 629 Hebraism and, 281 , 284 Hellerstein, Kathryn, xii , 14 , 187 , 482 – 483 , in Israel, 43 , 375 – 376 499 , 525 – 545 Longfellow translated into, 71 Hellman, Lillian, 250 in Old, Jewish, and Queer, 556 Helprin, Mark, 370 overview, 281 – 296 Hemingway, Ernest, 101 , 592 Henry Roth and, 42 – 43 Hemon, Aleksandar, 512 urban/American conditions and, Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 125 284 – 287 Henke, Suzanne, 331 – 332 in Yiddish comedy, 602 – 603 Henkin, Joshua, 373 – 374 See also translation Herbart, Johann Friedrich, 452 Hebrew literature Herder, Johann Gottfried, 11 and American Christianity, 291 – 293 Here Comes the Groom (musical American vs. European, 287 comedy), 238

692

Index

Hereville: How Mirka Got her Sword in emerging Jewish American literature, (Deutsch), 579 – 580 134 – 135 Herr Goldenbarg (Mr. Goldenbarg) and Farewell to Salonica, 301 – 302 (Raboy), 47 – 48 in Di khasene in Fernvald, 232 Herriman, George, 154 in Jewish American comic books and Hersey, John, 126 , 343 graphic novels, 571 , 573 , 577 – 579 Hershele Ostropolyer (Gordin), 238 – 239 in Jewish American drama, 237 – 238 , Herzl, Theodor(e), 98 , 364 , 534 254 – 255 Herzog (Bellow), 125 , 415 , 423 , 478 Jewish literary identity and, 72 Heschel, Susannah, 73 – 74 Jewish playwrights and, 244 – 245 Hessel, Carolyn Starman, 632 latency theories and, 331 – 332 Hester Street (fi lm), 273 in Leyb’s work, 220 Di hhasene in Fernvald ( A Wedding in in Malamud’s work, 135 Fernwald) (Leivick), 232 March of the Living program and, 624 Hidary, Vanessa, 314 in Maus, 5 7 1– 5 7 3 Hidden Canada (Ravvin), 420 New York in American Yiddish prose Highways (non-commercial theater and, 406 – 407 space), 555 The Normal Heart and, 553 Hip Hop Hoodíos (Jewish-Latino band), overview, 343 – 360 311 – 313 in Ozick’s work, 134 – 135 Hirsch, Marianne, 329 , 572 in Passage from Home, 105 Hirsch, Maurice de, 417 – 420 , 422 photography and, 464 Hirschbein, Peretz, 232 , 234 , 240 , 246 renewed interest in, 494 Hirsh Lekert (Leivick), 234 Rich and, 426 , 540 Histadrut Ha’ivrit (Organization for in Philip Roth’s work, 343 Hebrew Culture), 282 in Schindler’s List, 272 Historical Essay on the Colony of Surinam Silverman’s performance and, 617 – 619 (Nassy), 417 Sontag on, 464 The History of Love (Krauss), 348 – 352 , State of Israel and, 363 356 – 358 , 391 translation and, 491 History of the Jews (Graetz), 112 – 113 A Treasury of Yiddish Stories and, 479 History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth in Yiddish American poetry, 214 , 220 Century (Wiener), 497 Yiddish American poetry and, 203 – 204 Hitchcock, Alfred, 591 the Holocaust in Jewish American HIV/AIDS, 253 – 254 , 553 literature Hobomok (Child), 68 from the 60s on, 343 – 344 Hobson, Laura, 126 acceptance of life after, 358 – 360 Hoff er, Clara, 419 avoidance of, in poetry and fi ction, 343 Hoff man, Aaron, 248 – 250 complicated mourning and, 352 – 353 Hoff man, Adina, 190 , 294 early treatments of, 343 Hoff man, Allen, 384 , 387 – 388 , 391 ghost of (overview), 344 – 360 Hoff man, Miriam, 237 in The Ghost Writer, 344 – 347 Hoff man, William, 553 homosexuality and, 358 – 359 Hollander, John, 183 Israel and, 343 , 347 – 348 , 363 the Holocaust Jewish American writers’ emerging American Yiddish poetry involvement with, 344 and, 209 – 210 Jewish vulnerability and, 344 , 347 “ Behararei-haholot beMishigen” and, as an object of projection, 346 284 – 285 in Philip Roth’s work, 343 Canadian Jewish writing and, 437 , 441 “Holocaust Laughter?” (Des Pres), 571

693

Index

Holocaust survivors in Waltz in Goose-Step, 250 and the 9/11 terrorist attack, 391 in Yentl, 269 – 270 in L’Amour du Yiddish: écriture juive et See also lesbianism ; LGBT themes; queer sentiment de la langue, 443 performance in American theater in Bad Jews, 254 – 255 Hope: A Tragedy (Auslander), 346 – 347 Chava Rosenfarb among, 437 – 438 Hope Leslie (Sedgewick), 68 children of, 354 – 356 , 391 Horn, Dara in City of God, 3 8 6– 3 8 7 The World to Come, 481 in “Eli, the Fanatic,” 41 , 477 educational opportunities of, 623 – 628 in For Elsie, 552 – 553 and exile in New York, 387 in emerging Jewish American literature, In the Image, 391 , 624 134 – 135 justice themes of, 384 in Exodus, 368 literary family of, 636 – 637 in A Flag Is Born, 2 5 1– 2 5 2 New York in work of, 383 , 391 – 392 in Foreign Bodies, 54 Skibell and, 628 in Girl Unwrapped, 445 The World to Come, 352 , 356 – 357 , 389 , in Jewish American drama, 254 – 255 391 , 626 in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 125 , 134 – 135 Yiddish language and, 498 in Out of Sight, 557 Horovitz, Israel, 254 – 255 in Palestine, 368 Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (Decker), Robin among, 443 253 – 254 The Shawl, 157 HOTink festival (NYU), 240 U. S. as refuge for, 343 Houdini, Harry, 351 – 352 , 575 the Holy Land Houghteling, Sara, 627 American perceptions of, 362 “The Hour of Death” (Hyneman), 171 the Christian West’s rediscovery of, 29 , Hourglass (Kiš), 349 170 – 171 House Un-American Activities Allen Grossman and, 196 Committee, 550 in “The Imported Bridegroom,” 51 How to Be a Jewish Mother (Dan Lazarus and, 179 – 180 Greenbrug), 242 in Portnoy’s Complaint, 1 4 0– 1 4 1 How To Do Things With Tears (Allen in Rebekah Hyneman’s poetry, 169 – 175 Grossman), 195 – 196 in Roiphe’s work, 369 – 370 How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less See also Hyneman, Rebekah (Glidden), 373 Home of the Brave (Laurents), 249 – 250 How We Think (Dewey), 457 Home to Harlem (McKay), 508 Howe, Daniel Walker, 23 Homer (epic poet), 195 – 196 Howe, Irving homosexuality African Americans in Jewish writing in The Far Euphrates, 358 – 359 and, 511 – 512 of Gertrude Stein, 185 on alienation, 131 – 132 the Holocaust and, 358 – 359 as anthologist, 478 – 480 , 498 – 499 , 541 – 542 Jewish identity and, 540 – 543 boredom with Jewish novels and, 635 in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and in Breakthrough, 4 7 7– 4 7 8 Clay, 159 as editor of A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, Nazism and, 359 478 , 541 – 542 queer yiddishkayt and, 558 – 559 Ellison and, 515 – 516 of Riggs, 73 on Emersonian nature, 414 as rubric in Jewish American drama, 242 insecurities of, regarding Jewish Stollman and, 358 American literature, 475 , 480 in theater in the 80s, 254 on Jewish belonging, 106 , 132

694

Index

on Jewishness, 106 , 130 – 133 I Love You I Love You Not (Kesselman), as Partisan Review contributor, 456 254 – 255 “The Stranger and the Victim: The Two “I Never Do Anything Twice” (Sondheim), Stereotypes of American Fiction,” 589 – 590 130 – 131 Ibis Editions, 190 as translator, 494 – 495 , 498 Ibn Ezra, Moses, 176 “The World and the Jug,” 513 Ibsen, Henrik, 227 – 228 World of Our Fathers, 267 the idea of America Howells, William Dean, 50 , 451 , 496 – 498 American national purpose and, 22 Howlin’ Wolf, 595 the Enlightenment in, 23 – 24 Hudson River School painters, 413 – 414 nativism and, 37 – 38 Hugo, Victor, 299 , 302 negative liberty and, 24 Huhndorf, Shari, 75 , 77 – 78 o v e r v i e w, 2 1– 3 8 The Human Stain (Philip Roth), 510 , Protestant Reformation in, 23 – 24 5 1 3– 5 1 4 Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Humana Festival of the Actors Theatre, Congregations of Newport and, 22 , 27 240 – 241 See also Lazarus, Emma; Noah, Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow), 144 – 145 Mordecai Manuel; Wise, Isaac Mayer Hurst, Fanny, 478 the ideal of adventurous experience, Hurwitz, Moyshe Ha-Levi 450 – 451 Ish, 225 – 227 Idiots First (Malamud), 135 Hyneman, Rebekah The Idle Inn (Hirschbein), 234 , 246 “The Cedars of Lebanon,” 174 If I Were You (Sholem Aleichem), 247 – 248 the Holy Land and, 180 Ignatov, Dovid, 399 – 401 “Female Scriptural Characters,” 172 The Iliad, 196 gender issues and, 170 , 172 , 174 “The Illegals” (Meyer Levin), 367 the Holy Land and, 169 – 175 The Illuminated Soul (Stollman), 356 “The Hour of Death,” 171 “I’m a Yiddish Cowboy” (Noah), 71 “Israel’s Future,” 172 I’m Not Like You (Itta Chana Englander), 553 “Israel’s Trust,” 172 – 173 I’m Not Rappaport (Herb Gardner), Jewish identity of, 171 – 175 253 – 254 , 514 “Lament of Judah,” 174 “Imagined America” (Cahan), 87 Lazarus and, 33 Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in “The Leper,” 173 Contemporary American Literature, 516 The Leper and Other Poems, 172 Imber, Naphtali Hertz, 282 “Lines,” 172 “ Imigrantish ” [In the manner of the “Livia,” 171 immigrants] (J. L. Teller), 507 “Miriam’s Song,” 174 The Immigrants, A novel from the Life of “The Olive Branch,” 174 Russian Jews in America (Kobrin), religious self hood of, 164 – 165 , 398 – 399 169 – 175 , 180 immigration and modernity “The Sun of Israel,” 172 – 173 alienation as theme of, 103 – 107 “The Valley of Jehosaphat,” 172 – 173 for Antin, 88 – 90 “Zara,” 171 for Cahan, 90 – 92 for Gold, 97 – 99 I, Don Quixote (teleplay), 588 for Lewisohn, 113 – 114 I, Etcetera (Sontag), 152 – 153 for Nyburg, 107 – 114 “‘I Always Wanted You to Admire My for Ornitz, 94 – 96 Fasting’; or, Looking at Kaf ka’” overview, 87 – 116 (Philip Roth), 350 for Isaac Rosenfeld, 103 – 106

695

Index

immigration and modernity (cont.) Cuban-American exile literature for Henry Roth, 99 – 103 and, 336 for Delmore Schwartz, 116 divided societies in writings of, 335 – 336 for Yezierska and, 92 – 94 exile of, 330 – 334 , 336 – 338 “The Imported Bridegroom” (Cahan), fantasy in writings of, 338 – 339 5 1– 5 2, 5 4 the Holocaust and, 331 – 332 “ In a neger-kvartal ” [In a Negro quarter] as Iranians, 333 (Levy Goldberg), 507 Jewish belonging and, 333 In America (Sontag), 152 – 153 memoirs and remembrances in writings “In Crotona Park” (Tashrak), 398 of, 330 – 332 In heysn vint: lider (In the Hot Wind: neo-Orientalists among, 332 Poems) (Dropkin), 536 Persian literary culture and, 334 – 335 , 339 In keslgrub ( In the Whirlpool) (Ignatov), women writers among, 331 – 332 400 – 401 Irving, Amy, 273 “In Love with Yiddishe Kinder” ( Forverts “Isaac Babel” (Trilling), 461 column), 454 Isaacs, Bernard, 288 , 291 In New York (Halpern), 215 – 216 “ Ish, isha v’kof ” [Man, woman, ape] “ In subvey” [On the subway] (Leyeles), 507 (Blank), 507 In the Image (Horn), 391 , 624 Isherwood, Christopher, 588 “In the Jewish Synagogue at Islamic revolution (Iran), 331 – 333 , Newport” (Lazarus), 8 , 176 – 177 , 335 – 337 532 – 533 An Island Called Home (Behar), 420 In the Night Kitchen (Sendak), 585 – 586 The Island Within (Lewisohn), 31 , In the Reign of Peace (Nissenson), 368 113 – 114 , 366 In the Shadow of No Towers (Spiegelman), Isle of Klezbos (klezmer band), 558 359 , 391 Israel Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far Christian supercessionism and, 32 – 33 West (Carvalho), 69 in comic books and graphic novels, 569 , Indians. See Native Americans 573 , 578 – 579 “Infl uence” (Lazarus), 176 educational programs in, 623 – 624 Innocents Abroad (Twain), 172 Felder and, 557 The Instructions (Adam Levin), 628 “Hatikvah” as anthem of, 282 Intolerance (fi lm), 259 Hebrew-speaking society in, 281 The Invention of Infl uence (Cole), 190 Herzl on, 579 The Invisible Bridge (Orringer), 627 the Holocaust and, 343 , 347 – 348 , 363 Inzikh (Yiddish journal), 209 Jewish population increasing Inzikh (Yiddish poets group) in, 283 Christianity and, 207 – 208 Ladino in, 308 , 313 vs. Di yunge, 206 – 209 Lazarus and, 35 – 37 , 178 emergence of, 207 – 208 , 215 Moise and, 167 – 168 free verse favored by, 207 – 208 Montezinos and, 65 – 67 Halpern and, 216 Noah and, 27 – 29 , 289 , 292 inclusive outlook of, 207 – 208 in Operation Shylock, 41 – 44 modernism of, 208 – 210 Piercy and, 544 and the press, 212 in Portnoy’s Complaint, 139 – 141 , 611 , Iranian Islamic revolution, 331 – 333 , 335 – 337 615 – 616 Iranian Jews Puritan views of, 7 – 8 , 10 , 63 – 64 , 69 assimilation of, 334 – 338 Schwarz and, 484 contradictory attitudes in work of, ten lost tribes of, 64 , 68 – 69 320 – 321 , 329 , 339 territoriality and, 362 , 370 , 416

696

Index

Wise and, 29 , 32 – 33 Israeli literature/writing, 294 – 295 , 375 , 416 Yiddish theater in, 238 Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, 371 – 373 , 556– 557 , See also Ginzburg, Shimon; Hecht, Ben; 5 7 7– 5 7 9 the Holy Land; Hyneman, Rebekah; The Israelite (newspaper), 31 – 32 , 527 Jewish Middle Eastern pasts; Menken, “Israel’s Future” (Hyneman), 172 Adah Isaacs; Uris, Leon; Zion ; “Israel’s Trust” (Hyneman), 172 – 173 Zionism It Can’t Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis), 234 Israel (Lewisohn), 366 Israel (State of Israel) The Jackpot (Dos groyse gevins/200,000) American support for, 367 (Sholem Aleichem), 231 – 232 , 234 , 237 vs. assimilation, 367 Jackson, Jessie, 514 in Exodus, 126 , 367 Jacobowsky and the Colonel fi rst fi fty years of, 367 – 371 (Berhman), 250 – 251 Hebraism and, 283 Jacobs, Carol, 492 Hebrew as language of, 43 , 283 J a ff e, Al, 574 Der Judenstaat ( The Jewish State), 534 James, Henry lack of interest in, 210 , 363 – 364 The Ambassadors, 54 necessity of, 363 , 367 The American Scene, 497 writers’ interests in, 344 literary family of, 636 – 637 writers moving to, 283 , 294 Nyburg and, 108 in The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, 375 The Princess Casamassima, 460 Yiddish writers working in, 210 Trilling and, 466 Israel, Leon, 578 on the Yiddish language, 396 , 497 Israel in the Jewish American imagination James, William, 457 , 636 – 637 alienation and, 364 , 371 The Jazz Singer (fi lm), 31 , 248 , 259 , 263 – 267 authors’ diminishing identifi cation with, The Jazz Singer (play) (Raphaelson), 248 363 , 372 – 373 JBooks.com (web magazine of Jewish authors’ revived interest in, 364 culture), 633 the Diaspora and, 372 , 374 JCA (Jewish Colonization Association), family sagas and, 370 417 – 420 introduction, 362 – 364 J e ff ers, Robinson, 542 Israel’s fi rst fi fty years and, 367 – 371 J e ff erson, Thomas, 168 Israel’s popularity and, 363 – 364 J e ff ries, Leonard, 514 Jewish belonging and territoriality and, “Jerusalem” (Rich), 541 – 542 362 , 370 Jesus Christ, 54 – 57 , 109 , 175 literary genres and, 363 , 370 – 371 , 375 – 376 Jesus Is Magic (Silverman), 617 as literary vs. public topic, 362 “The Jew” (Charles Bernstein), 185 – 186 the new millennium and, 371 – 376 The Jew of New York (Katchor), 424 , 574 in New York City, 389 “Jewbird” (Malamud), 386 Orthodox/Ultra-Orthodox life and, 373 – 374 Jewface (Yiddish comedy recordings), overview, 362 – 376 603 – 605 , 608 renewed interest in Israel and, 365 Jewish American comic books and graphic before statehood, 364 – 367 novels travel writing about, 365 – 366 Biblical narratives in, 579 Ultra-Orthodox literature and, 374 – 375 Bronze Age of, 575 women writers in the 80s and 90s and, comic strips among, 592 369 – 370 commercial stability of, 566 See also Bellow, Saul; the Holy Land; cultural status of, 576 – 577 , 592 Potok, Chaim; Roth, Philip; Uris, direct market distribution system Leon; Wouk, Herman; Zion ; Zionism and, 567

697

Index

Jewish American comic books On Being Jewish, 4 74 and graphic novels (cont.) Breakthrough , 477 – 478 , 480 Eisner as foundational fi gure of, 568 – 571 The Charleston Book, 525 exhibitions of, 574 , 576 Found Treasures, 499 as a genre, 568 A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature, genres of, 567 470 – 474 , 483 – 484 , 624 Golden Age of, 566 , 573 , 576 – 577 Jewish American Literature: A Norton graphic novel status, 577 – 580 Anthology, 482 – 484 , 499 , 624 historical background of, 566 – 568 The Jewish Caravan, 4 7 0– 4 7 5, 4 8 4 the Holocaust in, 569 , 571 , 573 , 577 – 579 Lost Tribe, 481 Israeli-Palestinian confl ict in, 578– 579 origins of, 472 Jewish women in, 579 overview, 470 – 484 Jews at the center of, 576 The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish long-form comics among, 566 – 567 Verse, 495 The Old Bunch, 4 74 Promised Lands, 481 Orthodoxy in, 579 – 581 A Question of Tradition, 499 outlets for, 567 – 568 , 571 The Rise of American Jewish overview, 566 – 581 Literature , 4 7 8 in popular culture, 592 – 593 The Schocken Book of Jewish American readership of, 566 – 568 Fiction, 480 – 481 Silver Age of, 566 – 567 , 573 , 577 Scribblers on the Roof, 481 Spiegelman as foundational fi gure of, This Land, These People, 4 74– 4 7 5 568 – 569 A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry, 541 – 542 urtexts, subtexts, and contexts for, 574 – 579 women writers missing from, 499 See also Chabon, Michael; Eisner, Will; Writing Our Way Home, 480 – 481 Spiegelman, Art Yiddish South of the Border, 499 Jewish American drama See also Anthologies of British Poetry: AIDS and, 253 Critical Perspectives from Literary and anti-Semitism and, 253 Cultural Stories; Howe, Irving authorial identity in, 245 – 246 Jewish American Literature: A Norton characteristics of, 242 Anthology ( NAJAL) (Chametzky, feminism and, 253 Felstiner, Flanzbaum, Hellerstein, the Holocaust in, 237 – 238 eds.), 483 – 484 , 624 homosexuality and, 254 Jewish American Literature in the immigrant neighborhoods in, 246 mainstream, overview, 124 – 142 intermarriage themes in, 244 The Introduction, 1 – 18 non-Jewish playwrights and, 244 – 245 Jewish American literature since 2000 overview, 242 – 255 American educational system social consciousness in, 250 and, 623 See also queer performance in American award programs for, 632 – 633 theater; Yiddish American theater boredom with Jewish novels and, 635 Jewish American literary anthologies commercialization of, 636 America and I, 482 the graphic novel in, 637 American Jewish Fiction, 481 – 482 institutionalization and, 623 the American Jewish House of Fiction at irreverent attitudes toward education Mid-Century, 474 – 478 in, 628 American Yiddish Poetry, 495 Jewish historical fi ction in, 626 – 627 Amerikaner yidishe poezye, 210 – 211 Jews and Jewishness in, 627 anthologies of the new wave, 480 – 482 literary families in, 636 – 637 Arguing with the Storm, 499 marketing issues in, 631 – 638

698

Index

MFA/research programs and, 627 Jewish Federations of North America, 632 overview, 622 – 638 The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas ( Los post-Soviet immigrant issues in, 628 – 631 gauchos judíos) (Gerchunoff ), 418– 419 the problem of abundance in, 637 – 638 The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches young writers emerging in, 622 – 623 (Baskind and Omer-Sherman), 578 Jewish American poetry. See gender the Jewish Great Awakening, 34 poetics; Hebrew poetry; Yiddish The Jewish Gypsy (Yiddish play), 238 American poetry; specifi c poets The Jewish Heart ( Dos yidishe harts) Jewish American popular culture (Lateiner), 229 alchemy of, 597 Jewish Hero Corps (Oirich), 580 fi nancial success of, 597 Jewish homosexual identity. See formal subversiveness of, 585 – 590 homosexuality ; lesbianism ; LGBT immigrant discovery of, 601 – 603 themes; queer performance in innovation in, 585 American theater Jewish identity and, 584 – 585 , 588 – 589 Jewish humor in America minor/major key contrasts in, 607 Cab Calloway and, 608 – 609 overview, 584 – 597 Jewface performance in, 603 – 605 Yinglish performance in, 605 – 608 Jewish American identity and, 619 J ewish American Stories (Howe, ed.), overview, 601 – 619 479 – 480 racial stereotypes in, 604 , 608 The Jewish Anthology (Fleg), 472 scripted TV comedy in, 609 Jewish Arabs. See Jewish Middle stand-up comedy in, 609 – 611 Eastern pasts Jewish idealism, 112 – 114 , 116 Jewish Book Council, 632 – 633 , 636 “Jewish Ideals in a Changing World” Jewish Book Network (book tour (Nyburg), 112 – 113 organizer), 632 – 633 , 636 Jewish Iranians. See Iranian Jews; Jewish Jewish Book Week (Boston), 632 Middle Eastern pasts Jewish Book World (book-review quarterly), Jewish literary studies in America, 632 – 633 , 636 overview, 1 – 15 The Jewish Caravan (anthology) (Schwarz, ed.) Jewish literature in Caribbean regions, 417 American Jewish writing in, 474 Jewish literature in Central /South goals of, 472 – 473 America. See nature and landscape; insecurity regarding Judaism in, 475 , 484 territoriality NAJAL and, 484 Jewish melancholy, 344 – 345 women writers in, 470 – 471 See also blocked (complicated) mourning writers included in, 472 – 473 The Jewish Messenger (New York Jewish Zierler family history with, 470 – 471 newspaper), 527 – 528 See also Schwarz, Leo W. Jewish Middle Eastern pasts “Jewish Cartoonists and the American Cairo in, 322 , 324 , 329 – 330 Experience” (exhibition), 574 Egyptian cosmopolitanism and, 322 – 328 “The Jewish Cemetery at Newport” European Jewry and, 321 (Longfellow), 8 , 176 – 177 , 297 – 298 , gender issues and, 331 – 333 532 – 533 Iranian Jews in, 320 Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), Jewish absence in, 321 417 – 420 overview, 320 – 339 Jewish Daily Forward (newspaper), 384 , 451 , Palestine and, 321 453 , 633 See also Egyptian Jews; Iranian Jews See also Forverts Jewish Museum (New York City), Jewish Egyptians. See Egyptian Jews; Jewish 240 – 241 , 576 Middle Eastern pasts Jewish Museum of Maryland, 576

699

Index

Jewish Public Library (Yidishe folksbibliotek) Jewishfi ction.net., 633 (Canadian literary community), 435 Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated Jewish Review of Books, 633 History of an American Art Form Jewish Short Stories (anthology) (Lewisohn, (Buhle), 578 ed.), 475 Jews and fi lm Jewish Studies African American stereotypes in, Jewish American literature in, 3 , 11 264 – 265 marginalization of Jews and, 73 – 75 African American themes and, 264 multiculturalism and, 73 – 74 anti-Semitism in Hollywood, 262 – 263 Native Studies and, 74 – 78 assimilation and, 264 – 265 “Jewish Studies as Counter-History” in The Jazz Singer, 263 – 267 (Heschel), 73 – 74 Jewish stereotypes in, 258 , 266 – 267 Jewish Topographies (Brauch, Lipphart, in Musketeers of Pig Alley, 259 – 263 Nocke, eds.), 416 , 428 overview, 258 – 276 The Jewish War (Reich), 370 A Serious Man, 272 – 275 Jewish writing in Canada. See Canadian television competing with, 268 Jewish writing Uncle Moses and, 407 Jewish writing in New York Yentl , 267 – 272 Call it Sleep and, 381 – 383 Yiddish fi lm industry, 407 justice theme in, 389 – 394 Jews for Racial and Economic Justice New York as diasporic homeland (activist organization), 560 – 562 and, 387 Jews on America’s racial map. See blacks in New York as the capital of words and, Jewish writing 389 – 394 Jews Without Money (Michael Gold), 97 – 99 , New York neighborhoods in, 385 415 , 507 – 508 paths of justice in, 386 – 387 jobnik! (Libicki), 578 two Jews talking as literary convention “ Joe” (Shimon Ginzbrug), 507 in, 391 – 394 Johnson, James Weldon, 507 – 508 , 597 See also Asch, Sholem; Cahan, Abraham; Jolson, Al, 248 , 263 – 264 , 266 , 586 Chabon, Michael; Demblin, B.; Jonah, Samuel B. H., 243 Doctorow, E. L.; Goldman, Isaac; Joseph in Egypt (fi lm), 235 Goldstein, Rebecca; Hoff man, Allen; Journey from the Land of No (Hakakian), Horn, Dara; Ignatov, Dovid; Karpilove, 331 – 332 , 335 Miriam; Kazin, Alfred; Kobrin, Leon; Joy Comes in the Morning (Jonathan Krutikov, Mikhail; Liben, Meyer; Luria, Rosen), 389 Rachel; Malamud, Bernard; Miron, Joy to the World (Pink Martini Album), 312 Dan; Molodowsky, Kadya; Opatoshu, Joyce, James, 55 – 56 , 439 Joseph; Ozick, Cynthia; Paley, Grace; Judaism/Jewish Religion Paver, Chaver; Rivkin, Borekh; among American intellectuals ( see also Roskies, David G.; Roth, Henry; the role of the public intellectual in Schwartz, Maurice; Serdatsky, Yente; American Culture) Sforim, Mendele Moykher; Shapiro, in anthologies ( see Jewish American Lamed; Sholem Aleichem; Singer, I. B.; literary anthologies) Tashrak (Israel Yosef Zevin); Vapnyar, Christianity and ( see Christianity ; Lara; Yidishkayt Puritanism) Jewish-Black interaction, 253 – 254 and the English language ( see English See also blacks in Jewish writing language) “The Jewish-Canadian Literature Debate: gender poetics and ( see gender poetics) Has Jewish-Canadian Writing Lost Its Israel and ( see Israel in the Jewish Vigour?” (symposium), 445 American imagination)

700

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in Jewish American poetry (see Kandiyoti, Dalia, xii , 14 , 320 – 339 Secularity, Sacredness, and Jewish Kane, Bob, 574 – 575 American Poets 1950–2000) Kane Gil, 575 in Jewish American poetry (overview) Kaniuk, Yoram, 507 ( see Secularity, Sacredness, and Jewish Kaplan, Arie, 577 American Poets 1950–2000) Kaplan, Bruce Eric, 574 in Latin America ( see Ladino in the U. S.) Karchmer, Sylvan, 476 as a living religion (see Lazarus ; Emma Karp, Jonathan, 559 Noah; Mordecai Wise; Isaac Mayer) Karpilove, Miriam, 403 in the Middle East (see Jewish Middle Katan, Tania, 556 – 557 Eastern pasts) Katchor, Ben, 391 , 424 , 574 , 576 , 578 in popular culture ( see Jewish American Katin, Miriam, 578 comic books and graphic novels Kattan, Naïm Jewish American popular culture) Adieu Babylone, 442 religious self hood and ( see Hyneman, Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 Rebekah Lazarus, Emma Moise, Canadian Jewish Congress and, 441 Penina) Cercle Juif de Langue Française and, 441 See also Ashkenazi Judaism; assimilation ; isolation of, 434 Hasidic Judaism; Hebrew language; on A. M. Klein, 440 immigration and modernity; Orthodox multilingualism of, 441 – 442 Judaism; Reform Judaism; Sephardic writing in French, 434 Judaism; Ultra-Orthodox Judaism; Katz, Mickey, 604 – 608 , 611 Zionism ; specifi c authors Kaufman, Shirley, 294 , 374 Der Judenstaat ( The Jewish State), 534 Kazin, Alfred Judeo-Spanish press, 309 on Awake and Sing!, 250 See also Ladino journalism in Breakthrough, 4 7 7– 4 7 8 Judgment at Nuremberg (fi lm), 577 English Language and, 53 – 54 “Judith” (Menken), 529 – 531 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer Manhattan’s west side and, 385 (Katchor), 391 , 574 New York in work of, 389 – 390 Jumonville, Neil, 449 New York Jew, 54 , 389 – 390 The Jump Artist (Ratner), 627 On Native Grounds, 54 June Bride (Felder), 556 – 557 as Partisan Review contributor, 456 Justice, Daniel Heath, 76 stature of, 444 Walker in the City, 53 – 54 , 390 – 391 Kaaterskill Falls (Allegra Goodman), 158 – 159 Yiddish culture and, 498 Kabakoff , Jacob, 293 Keats, John, 457 Kabbalah, 12 , 189 – 193 Kellman, Steven G., 508 Kaddish (Wieseltier), 186 – 187 Kelly, Myra, 245 Kadison, Leib, 234 – 235 Kemelman, Harry, 126 Kaf ka, Franz, 12 , 146 , 350 , 584 – 585 Keneder adler (Yiddish Canadian Kahan, F. H., 419 newspaper), 435 Kahneman, Daniel, 629 Kennedy, Leo, 439 Kalich, Jacob, 236 Kentucky (Kentoki) (Y. Y. Schwartz), Kalish, Bertha, 229 , 236 217 – 218 , 507 Kallen, Horace, 5 , 9 , 365 Kermode, Frank, 493 – 494 Kalman, Nadia, 630 Kesselman, Wendy, 245 , 254 – 255 Kaminer, Michael, 579 Kessler, David, 226 , 229 , 239 Kaminska, Ester Rokhl, 230 Khomeini (Ayatollah), 335 – 336 Kaminska, Ida, 238 The Kibitzer (Edward G. Robinson), 246 – 247

701

Index

Kids and Yiddish (children’s educational Korte, Barbara, 482 – 483 show), 238 – 239 Kosher Kitty Kelly (De Costa), 247 – 248 Kidush hashem ( Sanctifi cation of the Name) Kosin 8ski, Jerzy, 354 – 355 (Asch), 232 Kramer, Hilton, 593 – 594 King, Ruchama Feuerman, 634 Kramer, Larry, 553 “King Solomon” (Isaac Rosenfeld), 479 – 480 Krasikov, Sana, 444 , 629 – 630 Kinsey Report, 550 , 560 – 561 Krasna, Norman, 250 The Kinsey Sicks (theatrical troupe), Krauss, Nicole 560 – 561 Great House, 352 – 353 , 357 Kirby, Jack (Jacob Kurtzberg), 574 – 575 , The History of Love, 348 – 352 , 356 – 358 , 391 577 – 578 , 592 – 593 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 Kirchheimer, Gloria DeVidas, 307 in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 Kirsch, Adam, 461 Kraytser sonate ( Kreutzer Sonata) (Gordin), Kirshenbaum, Binnie, 627 228 – 229 , 236 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 559 Krazy Kat (Jay Cantor), 154 , 571 – 572 Kiš, Danilo, 349 Kreisel, Howard, 440 , 444 Kishon, Efraim, 238 – 239 Kreisler, Fritz, 586 – 587 Di kishuf-makherin ( The Sorceress/ The Kreitman, Esther, 636 – 637 Witch) (Goldfadn), 225 Kressyn, Miriam, 240 Kleiman, Chana, 293 – 294 Kron, Lisa, 557 Klein, A. M. Krutikov, Mikhail, xii , 14 , 396 – 410 biographical sketch of, 439 Kubert, Joe, 575 , 578 , 580 Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 Kubrick, Stanley, 591 isolation of, 434 Kuni-Leml (Goldfadn) (musical literary group affi liations of, 439 adaptation), 240 literature on, 440 Kunitz, Stanley, 636 as modernist, 438 – 440 Kuokkanen, Rauna, 76 “Montreal,” 439 Kuperstock, Dina, 275 The Rocking Chair, 439 Kurtzberg, Jacob. See Kirby, Jack The Second Scroll, 439 Kurtzman, Harvey, 570 , 574 writing in English, 434 , 438 – 440 Kushner, Tony as Zionist, 439 Angels in America, 254 , 510 – 511 , 553 – 555 Klein, Alexander, 476 A Bright Room, 254 – 255 Klein, Charles, 243 – 244 Caroline or Change, 253 – 254 Klein, Jenny Machlowitz, 476 A Dybbuk, 246 , 558 Kleist, Heinrich von, 148 at Princeton conference, 3 , 624 – 625 Klepfi sz, Irina, 187 – 189 , 498 , 507 – 508 kleynkunst programs, 234 , 238 La Mama Experimental Club Klezkamp/KlezKanada (performance (off -Broadway theater), 551 – 552 venues), 239 La Scala (Teatro alla Scalla), 586 – 587 Klezmatics (klezmer band), 558 Ladin, Joy, 634 Klezmer (Sfar), 578 Ladino feminism, 314 klezmer music, 312 , 491 , 510 , 558 , 601 – 602 Ladino in the U. S. Koblitz, Alfred, 247 – 248 authorial poetry and, 300 Kobrin, Leon, 233 , 398 – 399 demographics of, 10 K o ff man, David, 64 Diaspora and, 298 Kolitz, Zvi, 237 – 238 English-language works and, 301 – 309 Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 576 Ottoman Empire and, 10 , 298 , Koret Jewish Book Awards, 633 300 – 301 , 309 Korngold, Eric, 263 in Out of Egypt, 322 – 323

702

Index

revival of, 297 , 309 – 310 , 316 Lateiner, Joseph, 225 – 226 , 229 , 233 among Sephardic immigrants, 298 , 315 Latin American Jewish immigrants, 10 See also Latin American Jewish Latin American Jewish literature literature Behar in, 309 , 420 Ladino journalism, 298 – 301 Eichelbaum in, 419 , 421 Ladino music Gerchunoff in, 418– 420 Aroeste and, 313 – 314 Glickman in, 419 cultural environments of, 311 Goldembarg in, 66 – 67 Hip Hop Hoodíos, 311 – 313 Goloboff in, 421 Ladino Alternative music, 311 Jewish belonging and territoriality in, Ladino songs, 310 – 311 415 – 422 overview, 310 – 315 Montezinos in, 65 – 67 , 69 – 71 Ladino Players (Ladino theater troupe), 310 Scliar in, 419 Ladino press, 315 territorializing dimensions of, 416 , 421 – 425 Ladino theater, 309 – 311 See also Ladino in the U. S. “The Lady of the Lake” (Malamud), 135 Latin American Jewish music. See Laemmle, Carl, 262 Ladino music Lagnado, Lucette Latin American Jewish scholarship, 413 The Arrogant Years, 324 Latin American Jewish studies, 416 on Cairo, 324 laughter and trembling, 144 Catholicism in family of, 325 Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Neil Simon), cultural confl ict in the workof, 634 252 – 253 exile status of, 324 , 326 – 327 Lau-Lavie, Amichai, 561 as feminist, 324 Laurence, Margaret, 441 longing in work of, 322 Laurents, Arthur, 249 – 250 The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lavigne, Michael, 371 – 372 326 – 327 Lavon Aff air, 325 U. S.-Muslim oppositions in, 327 Layton, Irving, 439 – 440 , 444 “ La’ivrim ba’Ameriqah ” (To the Hebraists in Lazarus, Emma America) (Shimon Ginzburg), 292 America as viewed by, 35 – 38 , Lamartine, Alphonse de, 172 175 – 177 Lambert, Josh, xii , 14 , 510 , 622 – 638 on American integration, 1 “Lament of Judah” (Hyneman), 174 anti-Semitism and, 178 , 366 , 534 “Lamentation” (Back), 197 – 198 “Autumn Sadness,” 176 Lampell, Millard, 244 – 245 “The Banner of the Jew,” 35 Land of Hope (Hofer and Kahan), 419 biographical sketches of, 33 – 35 , 532 Landau, Zishe, 206 Robert Browning, 532 Landscapes: America and the Americas By the Waters of Babylon: Little Poems in overview, 413 – 428 Prose, 36 – 37 See also Latin American Jewish literature; “The Choice,” 35 nature and landscape; territoriality Christianity and, 533 Lang, Fritz, 263 “City Visions,” 176 Lapine, James, 553 Daniel Deronda’s infl uence on, 112 , 365 Larsen, Nella, 507 – 508 the Diaspora and, 534 Lasko-Gross, Miss, 579 “Echoes,” 176 , 536 “The Last Emigrant” (“El útimo de los Emerson and, 34 , 178 , 532 colonos”) (Glickman), 419 An Epistle to the Hebrews, 35 , 365 The Last Night of Balllyhoo (Uhry), 253 – 254 ethnicity issues and, 175 , 177 , 180 The Last Seder (Meiskin), 552 “The Exodus,” 36 – 37 “Late Autumn in Montreal” (J. I. Segal), 435 feminism of, 536

703

Index

Lazarus, Emma (cont.) Lee, Stan, 574 – 575 as foundational fi gure, 21 – 22 Leegant, Joan, 373 – 374 “1492,” 1 , 9 , 535 Leeser, Isaac, 173 – 174 gender poetics of, 170 , 176 , 179 – 180 , 525 , Leib, Mani, 435 535 – 536 Leissin, Abraham, 213 “Gifts,” 35 Leivick, H. Heine and, 498 , 532 , 535 Di yunge and, 209 the Holy Land and, 179 – 180 in Forverts, 212 identities of, 164 – 180 , 532 – 533 The Golem ( Der goylem), 214 , 216 – 217 , “Infl uence,” 176 232 , 240 Israel and, 35 – 37 , 178 , 533 – 535 Di khasene in Fernvald ( A Wedding in as Jewish American national poet, 33 , 535 Fernwald), 232 “In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport,” Hirsh Lekert, 234 8 , 176 – 177 , 532 – 533 as modernist, 217 on Judaism as a living religion, 8 “ Negerish,” 507 “Life and Art,” 176 and the New Worlds Theater Project, 240 “Mater Amabilis,” 176 publishing in newspapers, 213 William Morris and, 532 Shap ( The Shop), 232 “The New Colossus,” 8 , 35 , 179 – 180 working in various genres, 214 “The New Year / Rosh Hashanah 5643,” Lemelman, Martin, 578 178 – 179 , 533 – 535 , 541 Lenny (fi lm and play), 248 Noah and, 35 “ Lenoks Avenu” (Avraham Tzvi Halevy), 507 pluralism and, 179 – 180 Leonard Milberg archives, 3 political activism of, 22 , 164 , 177 – 178 “The Leper” (poem) (Hyneman), 173 post–Civil War pluralization and, 175 The Leper and Other Poems (volume) Puritans and, 9 (Hyneman), 172 Reform Judaism and, 176 , 533 Lerner, Ben, 633 religious self hood of, 164 – 165 , 177 , 180 Les Misérables (Hugo), 299 “Restlessness,” 176 lesbianism “Saint Michael’s Chapel,” 176 of Felder, 556 – 557 Sephardic ancestry of, 34 , 176 , 365 , 532 in Girl Unwrapped, 445 “Songs of a Semite” (poem), 365 in God of Vengeance, 549 Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death and in “A Letter to Harvey Milk,” 358 Other Poems, 9 , 532 of Rich, 370 , 540 , 544 – 545 Statue of Liberty and, 8 , 35 – 36 , 175 – 176 , See also homosexuality ; LGBT themes; 179 – 180 , 285 , 364 , 535 queer performance in American stature of, 3 theater as translator, 498 Lessing, Bruno, 635 “Venus of the Louvre,” 535 – 536 Lester, Julius, 634 on Ward Island, 176 – 177 Lethem, Jonathan, 155 – 156 Zion and, 180 , 365 – 366 “A Letter to Harvey Milk” (Lesleá Zionism and, 36 – 37 , 164 , 177 , 364 – 366 Newman), 358 Leafl ets (Rich), 541 Letting Go (Philip Roth), 148 – 149 Leah’s Journey (Goldenreich), 370 Letts, Tracy, 551 Leaving the Atocha Station (Lerner), 633 Levant, Oscar, 586 – 587 Leavitt, June, 294 Levi, Aharon (Antonio de Montezinos), 66 Lebensraum (Israel Horovitz), 254 – 255 Levi, Primo, 354 – 355 , 360 Lebow, Barbara, 254 – 255 Levin, Adam, 628 LeBreton Flats (Canada), 420 – 421 Levin, Gabriel, 294 Lee, Richard Henry, 30 Levin, Jack, 250

704

Index

Levin, Meyer, 367 , 474 , 478 “The Lie” (Antin), 471 , 474 Levin, William. See Baruch, Ben Lieben, S., 474 Levine, Norman, 444 Liessin, Abraham (Abraham Walt), 205 , 497 Levine, Philip, 507 – 508 , 636 “Life and Art” (Lazarus), 176 Levinson, Julian, xii – xiii , 13 , 21 – 38 A Life Force (Eisner), 570 Lévy, Albert, 300 “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” (J. W. Levy, Yasmin, 313 Johnson), 597 Lewis, Sinclair, 234 , 250 Lightman, Sarah, 579 Lewisohn, Ludwig Li’l Abner (comic strip), 592 anti-Semitism and, 366 Lilien, E.M., 204 Christianity and, 366 Lindberg, Charles, 348 dissimilation and, 114 , 116 Linder, Mark, 247 – 248 in A Golden Treasury, 4 74 “Lines” (Hyneman), 172 The Island Within, 31 , 113 – 114 , 366 “ Lintshing” (Vaynshteyn), 507 Israel , 366 Lipschtick Collective (theatrical as Jewish Short Stories editor, 475 troupe), 560 Ribalow vs., 475 – 476 Lipsky, Louis, 248 as Zionist, 366 Lipstick Jihad (Maveni), 331 – 332 Leyb, Mani Liptzin, Keni, 229 – 230 Baladn , 215 Lisitzky, Ephraim, 288 , 290 – 292 Di yunge and, 206 – 207 “Literary Blacks and Jews” (Ozick), 515 – 516 Halpern and, 206 Litman, Ellen, 444 the Holocaust and, 220 Little Caesar (fi lm), 260 identity of, as poet, 214 The Little Disturbances of Man (Paley), 125 Lider , 215 Little Dorrit (Dickens), 51 – 52 literary infl uences on, 206 “Livia” (Hyneman), 171 publishing in newspapers, 213 Llosa, Mario Vargas, 66 – 67 sonnets by, 220 – 221 Locke, John, 23 Yidishe un slavishe motivn, 2 1 5 The Locked Room (Auster), 153 Leyeles, A. Lockowandt, Mara, 310 Di yunge founded by, 207 “Logic of the Gift” (Mauss), 75 – 76 Fabyus Lind, 218 – 219 Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill), 551 as modernist, 217 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8 , 71 , in the press, 213 176 – 177 , 297 – 298 , 532 – 533 “ In subvey” [On the subway], 507 Lorre, Peter, 263 “ Tsu dir – tsu mir” (“To You – To Me”), 219 Los Angeles Yiddish Folksbeine, 239 “ Woodfern farm,” 220 – 221 Lost in Yonkers (Neil Simon), 252 – 253 LGBT themes, 375 , 549 – 551 , 553 – 555 , 567 The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million See also homosexuality ; lesbianism (Daniel Mendelsohn), 57 Liben, Meyer, 383 Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge The Liberal Imagination (Trilling), (anthology) (Zakrzewski, ed.), 481 449 – 450 , 456 “The Loudest Voice” (Paley), 477 Libicki, Miriam, 578 Lovingkindness (Roiphe), 369 Libin, Zalmen, 233 Lowell, Robert, 493 – 494 Licht, David, 234 – 235 Lower Depths (Gorki), 234 Lichtenstein, Diane, 166 Lower East Side Lichtenstein, Roy, 592 aging populations on, 237 Lider (Leyb), 215 in Cahan’s work, 451 Di lider fun gan eyden ( Songs of Paradise) in The Centuries, 246 – 247 (Borow and Hoff man), 237 in Di grinhorns, 226

705

Index

Lower East Side (cont.) Malamud, Bernard Di yunge and, 205 The Assistant, 125 , 387 in fi lms, 259 – 260 Brooklyn and, 127 as immigrant community, 55 , 366 , 402 emergence of, 132 Jewish theaters on, 225 The Fixer, 125 , 135 in Jews without Money, 133 “The German Refugee,” 135 in Mickey Katz’s songs, 606 in The Ghost Writer, 346 Ladino theaters on, 309 the Holocaust in, 135 in Merekiyas de Orchard Street, 310 Idiots First, 135 migration from, 405 on indigenous identities, 72 Oriental Jews on, 298 “Jewbird,” 386 in The Rise of David Levinsky, 90 “The Lady of the Lake,” 135 in Henry Roth’s work, 414 literary prizes won by, 125 in translations, 497 The Magic Barrel, 135 in West Side, 408 – 409 Mosley and, 517 ydishkayt in, 410 Native Americans and, 423 – 424 in Yentl, 267 The Natural, 125 Loyalties (Galsworthy), 549 nature and landscape in, 422 – 423 Ludwig, Reuven, 217 A New Life, 125 , 422 – 423 The Luftmensch (Mamet), 252 New York in work of, 387 Lulu Belle (Sheldon and MacArthur), 549 The People, 423 – 424 Lumet, Sidney, 272 as a poet, 182 Luria, Isaac, 192 publications of, continuing, 622 Luria, Rachel, 403 – 404 Remnick and, 629 Luska, Sidney, 635 Henry Roth and, 507 – 510 La Luz (Ladino newspaper), 309 stature of, 144 The Lyons (Nicky Silver), 552 The Tenants, 5 1 2– 5 1 6 Malin, Irving, 477 , 480 “ Ma’aseh b’kushi” [A Negro tale] Mames lukshen kugl (Mama’s Noodle (Avinoam), 507 Pudding) (touring theatrical troupe), MacArthur, Charles, 549 238 – 239 MacArthur Award, 574 “ Der mames shabosim/ My Mother’s Sabbath Machado, David Mendes, 25 Days” (Klepfi sz), 187 – 189 Macklin, Charles, 44 Mamet, David, 252 Mad Magazine (Kurtzman), 570 , 574 The Man in My Basement (Mosley), 517 Madison, James, 24 – 25 The Man in the Glass Booth (Robert Shaw), Maeterlinck, Maurice, 228 244 – 245 The Magic Barrel (Malamud), 135 The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit Mahr, Eric, 580 (Lagnado), 326 – 327 Mahrwood Press, 580 – 581 The Man Meat Collective (theatrical Maibaum, Richard, 250 troupe), 560 Mailer, Norman, 125 – 126 , 144 , 507 – 508 , 629 Man of La Mancha (Broadway musical), 588 Maimonides (Sephardic Mandel, Ann, 419 – 420 philosopher), 330 Mandel, Eli, 419 – 421 , 428 , 440 , 444 mainstream Jewish literature Mandell, Sherri, 294 overview, 124 – 142 manga (Japanese comics), 566 See also Breakthrough Manger, Itzik, 210 , 239 Maisel, Jennifer, 552 Manger Prize, 437 Majzels, Robert, 444 Manger randeyvu ( Refl ections of a Lost Poet) Makhshoves, Baal, 384 (Miriam Hoff man), 237

706

Index

Mann, Emily, 254 – 255 McCarthy, Mary, 245 – 246 Mann, Thomas, 592 McCord, Adelaide. See Menken, Adah Isaacs Manseau, Peter, 633 McDermott, Dylan, 512 Marans, Jon, 254 – 255 , 552 – 553 McGurl, Mark, 137 , 623 March of the Falsettos (Finn), 254 McKay, Claude, 508 March of the Living (Holocaust awareness McLeod, Cynthia, 417 program), 624 Medurot doakhot (Dying Campfi res) Margolin, Anna, 215 , 218 (Lisitzky), 290 Margolin, Deb, 557 – 559 Meet Me In St. Louis (fi lm), 263 Margolis, Rebecca, xiii , 14 , 432 – 445 The Megile of Itsik Manger (Folksbiene Marguelis, Donald, 254 – 255 , 558 production), 238 – 239 Marin, Cheech, 611 Megillat Esther (Waldman), 578 Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk), 126 Meir, Golda, 367 Markewich, Robert, 476 Meir, Moshe ben, 507 Markfi eld, Wallace, 383 Meiskin, Judy, 552 Markovitz, Anouk, 634 Melman, Meir, 238 “Mar’ot beNovah Sqotyah” (Visions in Melnick, Jeff r e y, 7 3 Nova Scotia) (Halkin), 285 The Melting Pot (Zangwill), 8 , 243 – 244 marranos (Jews converted to Christianity), MELUS (Society for the Study of the 66 , 70 , 325 , 426 – 427 Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United See also conversos States), 4 , 577 Marvel Comics, 566 – 567 , 575 , 578 Melville, Herman, 365 Marvin Trilogy (Finn), 254 Memoirs of a Muse (Vapnyar), 630 – 631 Marx Brothers, 422 , 608 Memories of a Lost Egypt: A Memoir with Marx/Marxism, 112 , 133 , 363 , 449 , 454 Recipes (Rossant), 321 Mary (Asch), 496 Mendele Moykher Sforim (Shalom Massey, Irving, 436 – 437 Abramovitsh), 406 , 498 Master of the Return (Reich), 370 Mendelsohn, Daniel, 57 Masters, Edgar Lee, 287 Mendy and the Golem (Brandstein “Masters of American Comics” revival), 580 (exhibition), 576 Mendy and the Golem (Estrin and Sears), 580 “Mater Amabilis” (Lazarus), 176 Mengele experiments, 359 The Material World, 558 – 559 Menken, Adah Isaacs (Adelaide McCord) Mattachine Society, 550 “The Affi nity of Poetry and Religion,” Matthew Arnold (Trilling), 457 , 459 527 – 528 Matza, Diane, 481 Christian milieu of, 528 Maud, Zuni, 578 as feminist, 527 , 529 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (Spiegelman), 352 , gender poetics of, 525 , 527 – 532 354 – 355 , 568 , 571 – 573 , 575 – 576 , 637 “Hear, O Israel!,” 528 – 529 Mauss, Marcel, 75 – 76 “Judith,” 529 – 531 Maveni, Azadeh, 331 – 332 lifestyle of, 527 May, Lary, 264 – 265 Moise and, 531 – 532 Mayer, Louis, 262 – 263 “Notes of her life in her own Hand,” 527 “Mayne” (Luria), 403 – 404 as plagiarist, 531 – 532 Mayne, Seymour, 444 published in The Israelite, 527 “Mayses” (“Stories”) (Peretz), 49 “Rosh Hashanah,” 528 Mayzel, Nakhman, 507 Walt Whitman and, 527 , 531 – 532 Maze, Ida, 436 wild soul-poems of, 527 – 529 Mazel (Rebecca Goldstein), 387 , 393 – 394 The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 43 Mazow, Julia Wolf, 482 Mercy of a Rude Stream (Henry Roth), 509

707

Index

Merekiyas de Orchard Street ( Orchard Street Mirvis, Tova, 622 , 634 Blues) (Altabé), 310 “ Misis Vuds” (Mrs. Woods) (Bavli), 291 “El mes de la santidad” (The holy month) Mr. Kunis (Blank), 507 (Solas), 301 Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow), 125 , 134 – 135 , Der Mesader kedushin (the wedding 348 , 360 , 368 , 387 , 509 – 510 offi ciant), 601 – 603 “The Mistress” (Vapnyar), 385 The Messiah of Stockholm (Ozick), 158 , 348 , Mitokh hasugar (Inside the Cage) (Avraham 350 – 352 , 356 Zvi Halevy), 286 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios, Mizrahi Judaism, 375 – 376 , 434 , 634 , 636 263 , 587 – 588 Mlotek, Zalmen, 238 – 240 “ Mi pi kushim ” [From Negro mouths] Modan, Rutu, 374 (Silberschlag), 507 The Model Apartment (Marguelis), 254 – 255 Micah (prophet), 1 , 23 The Modern Jewish Canon (literary criticism) Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist), 148 (Wisse), 624 Michaels, Anne, 354 – 356 , 360 Modern Language Association, 240 – 241 , 413 Michaels, Walter Benn, 72 , 136 – 137 , 346 modernism Middle-Eastern Jews. See Jewish Middle of Call It Sleep, 54 – 57 , 99 – 103 Eastern pasts Canadian modernism, 413 – 414 , 435 – 436 Midge, Tiff a n y, 7 2 of Halpern, 215 , 217 Mila 18 (Uris), 343 in Der Hammer, 7 1 Milberg, Leonard, 3 in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl, 9 4 Miller, Arthur, 245 – 246 , 248 , 476 – 477 , Hebraist resistance against, 287 – 288 507 – 508 , 549 , 551 in Hebrew poetry, 284 – 288 Miller, Jennifer, 555 of Inzikh, 208 – 210 Miller, Jonathan, 584 – 585 of A. M. Klein, 438 – 440 Miller, Nancy, 329 of Leivick, 217 Miller, Risa, 373 , 634 of A. Leyeles, 217 Miller, Stephen Paul, 185 , 187 Partisan Review and, 449 Miller, Susan, 552 performance art and, 555 – 558 Milton, John, 176 of J. I. Segal, 435 Mina, oder di tseshterte familye fun down-town of I. B. Singer, 269 ( Mina; or, The Ruined Downtown in Yiddish American poetry, 208 – 210 , 219 , Family) (Leon Kobrin), 233 287 – 288 The Mind-Body Problem (Rebecca Modigliani, Amadeo, 591 Goldstein), 151 – 152 Modne mentshn (Luria), 403 – 404 The Ministry of Special Cases (Nathan Mogulesko, Sigmund, 226 Englander), 635 Moise, Penina Minnelli, Vincente, 263 America as viewed by, 175 – 176 Mintz, Alan, 283 – 284 , 506 ethnicity and, 165 – 166 , 168 – 169 Miqlat (Refuge) (Hebrew literary Evangelicism of, 165 – 169 journal), 289 gender poetics of, 525 – 527 , 532 Miqlat (Refuge) (Wallenrod), 289 Hymns of, 165 – 169 , 525 – 526 , Miransky, Peretz, 443 531 – 532 , 544 Mirele Efros/ Di yidishe Kenign Lir ( Mirele Hyneman and, 33 Efros/ The Jewish Queen Lear) (Gordin), Israel and, 167 – 168 228 , 237 , 240 Lazarus and, 33 Mirele Efros (fi lm), 235 Menken and, 531 – 532 “Miriam” (Moise), 525 – 527 “Miriam,” 525 – 527 “Miriam’s Song” (Hyneman), 174 Reform Judaism and, 165 , 168 , 525 Miron, Dan, 12 , 284 , 408 , 517 religious self hood of, 164 – 165 , 180

708

Index

Sephardic ancestry of, 525 multiculturalism Sunday School in Charleston and, 174 in alternative comics, 568 Zion and, 168 – 169 , 180 among Israeli writers, 375 Molodowsky, Kadya, 210 , 407 , 494 – 495 , in Canada, 433 , 437 541 – 542 Christianity and, 73 – 74 , 168 Moment (Jewish cultural magazine), 633 in comic books and graphic novels, 568 Monish (Peretz), 202 critical multiculturalism, 6 Monkman, Kent, 413 – 414 vs. Enlightenment universalism, 71 “Monte Saint Angelo” (Miller), 476 – 477 Jewish Studies and, 73 – 74 Monteux, Pierre, 587 – 588 Jewishness and, 559 Montezinos, Antonio de, 65 – 67 , 69 – 71 post-war Jewish American literature “Montreal” (A. M. Klein), 439 and, 136 – 137 Montreal Group (Canadian poets See also pluralism group), 439 Muni, Paul, 263 The Moon is Always Female (Piercy), 543 Muñoz, Josè, 560 Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (Nahai), 338 Muscle Jew, 366 Morales, Aurora Levins, 426 – 427 Museum of the City of More Die of Heartbreak (Bellow), 144 New York, 240 – 241 Morgentaler, Goldie, 438 Musketeers of Pig Alley (fi lm), 259 – 263 Morgn frayhayt (newspaper), 212 – 213 Muslim-Jewish relations, 333 , 339 Mormons, 70 , 291 – 292 See also Jewish Middle Eastern pasts Morning Star (Regan), 247 Musterverk (Canadian Yiddish literary Morris, Daniel, 185 , 187 series), 436 Morris, William, 532 My Father’s House (Meyer Levin), 367 Morrison, Toni, 506 My Father’s Paradise, 376 M o r r o w, R o b , 7 1 My Life as A Man (Philip Roth), 148 – 149 Morton, Martha, 245 My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding Mosby’s Memoirs (Bellow), 125 (Hein and Sankoff ), 552 Moses and Monotheism (Freud), 326 “Moshe from Nova Scotia” (Noah), 71 Nabokov, Vladimir, 592 Moshiakhs tsaytn ( The Era of the Messiah) Nafi cy, Azar, 332 (Asch), 232 Nafi si, Azad, 331 – 332 Mosley, Walter, 517 Naghibi, Nima, 331 – 332 Mossanen, Dora Levy, 332 – 333 , 338 Nahai, Gina Mostel, Zero, 588 – 589 Caspian Rain, 332 – 333 , 335 – 336 , 338 Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem), 155 – 156 Cry of the Peacock, 338 Motke ganev ( Motke the Thief) (Asch), 232 on freedom in exile, 331 – 332 Motl, The Cantor’s Son (Sholem Aleicham), Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, 338 44 – 46 , 50 , 397 postmillennial productivity and, 633 – 634 Motl the Operator (fi lm), 235 Sunday’s Silence, 338 Mouly, Francoise, 571 – 572 Nahshon, Edna, xiii , 13 , 242 – 255 “Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud), 352 NAJAL . See Jewish American Literature: A Di moyd fun Ludmir ( The Maid of Ludmir) Norton Anthology (Miriam Hoff man), 237 The Naked and the Dead (Mailer), 125 – 126 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 5 Napoleon Bonaparte, 23 Mozart, Wolfgang, 585 – 586 Nasi, Doña Gracia de, 314 Mrs. Katz and Tush (Polacco), 514 Nassau, Paul, 247 Muddy Waters, 595 Nassy, David de Isaac Cohen, 417 Mul ohel Timurah (Before the Tent of Natasha and Other Stories (Bezmozgis), 444 Timurah) (Silkine), 290 – 291 National Book Award, 125 , 622

709

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National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, in Michael Gold’s work, 415 126 , 632 – 633 , 637 in Halkin’s work, 285 National Theater, 233 in Jewish writing in the Americas, National Yiddish Book Center, 240 – 241 413 – 415 , 428 National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, in The Leper, 173 238 – 241 literature, Jewish identity and, 416 Native American history/studies, 62 – 63 , in Malamud’s work, 422 – 423 7 1– 7 2, 74 – 7 6 in Mordecai Richler’s work, 414 – 415 Native Americans New World Jewish communities and, 414 Carvalho and, 67 – 70 postcolonial critiques, 425 – 427 Christianity and, 67 in Rich’s work, 425 – 426 First Nations and, 424 in Rosenfarb’s work, 414 – 415 in Hebrew poetry, 71 – 72 , 290 – 291 in Philip Roth’s work, 423 Jewish identifi cation with, 63 – 65 , 67 – 70 , vs. urban ghettos, 413 – 415 423 – 425 in Woodfern farm, 221 the Jewish immigrant Other and, 72 in Yehoash’s work, 205 Jewish radicalism and, 70 – 73 in Yezierska’s work, 415 in Katchor’s graphic novel, 424 See also Landscapes: America and the in Malamud’s work, 423 – 424 Americas; territoriality in Mordecai Richler’s work, 424 – 425 “ Nayerd” (Y. Y. Schwartz), 217 – 218 Noah and, 67 – 70 The Nazarene (Asch), 496 in the Yiddish press, 71 Nazis/Nazism, 237 , 359 , 540 native origins negative liberty, 24 Apess and, 70 – 71 “ Negerish” (Leivick), 507 Carvalho and, 67 – 71 “ A negerl” [A Negro boy] (Reyzen), 507 encounters across disciplines, 73 – 78 “ Negershe kinderlekh ” [Negro children] Montezinos and, 65 – 67 , 69 – 71 (Nevadovska), 507 Native Studies and, 74 – 78 “ A neger-viglid ” [A Negro lullaby] Noah and, 68 , 70 – 71 (Barkan), 507 o v e r v i e w, 6 2– 7 8 Neighborhood Playhouse (New York), 233 – 234 Riggs and, 62 , 72 – 73 , 75 – 76 Nelson, Tim Blake, 254 – 255 Sanford and, 62 , 72 – 73 , 75 – 76 Nemesis (Philip Roth), 127 , 348 tribes lost and found, 63 – 67 Nepon, Emily, 560 See also conversos; Enlightenment Ner mul kokhavim (Candle Facing Stars) universalism; Jewish Studies; marranos (Preil), 295 – 296 Native Studies, 74 – 78 Netfl ix, 272 nativism, 37 – 38 , 175 , 248 – 249 , 266 Neugeboren, Jay, 507 – 508 Nattel, Lillian, 444 Neugroschel, Joachim, 499 The Natural (Malamud), 125 Nevadovska, Roza, 507 nature and landscape Di neveyle [ The Carcass] (Hirschbein), 232 Americanization and, 428 The New American Splendor Anthology assimilation and, 428 (Pekar), 572 – 573 in Bavli’s work, 292 “The New Colossus” (Lazarus), 8 , 35 – 36 , in Bellow’s work, 415 179 – 180 in Call It Sleep, 415 See also Statue of Liberty early Jewish-American visions of, 413 – 415 New Critics, 131 , 466 as emplacement for Jewish North New Jews, 559 – 562 American writers, 414 – 415 The New Leader (British socialist in English and French Canadian poetic newspaper), 511 , 516 traditions, 435 A New Life (Malamud), 125 , 422 – 423

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new voices; new challenges Nichols, Anne, 244 – 245 , 549 overview, 144 – 160 “ 1919,” 208 – 209 See also Auster, Paul; Bellow, Saul; Nissenson, Hugh, 368 Cantor, Jay; Chabon, Michael; Nitgedayget (adult summer camps), 234 Dickstein, Morris; Doctorow, E. L.; Niv (Expression) (journal), 293 Elkin, Stanley; Goldstein, Rebecca; Noah, Mordecai Manuel Heller, Joseph; Lethem, Jonathan; America as viewed by, 25 – 30 , 32 , Mailer, Norman; Malamud, 3 5, 3 7– 3 8 Bernard; Ozick, Cynthia; Paley, in anthologies, 474 Grace; Portnoy’s Complaint; Price, Ararat colony of, 25 – 30 , 68 , 289 , 424 Richard; Roth, Philip; Sontag, Susan; Ashkenazi ancestry of, 25 Wisse, Ruth “Big Chief Dynamite,” 71 New Worlds Theatre Project, 240 biographical sketch of, 25 “The New Year / Rosh Hashanah 5643” Discourse on the Restoration of the (Lazarus), 179 – 180 , 533 – 535 , 541 Jews, 2 9– 3 0 New Yiddish Art Theater, 234 Discourses on the Evidences of the American New Yiddish Rep, 238 Indians Being the Descendants of the Ten New York City. See Jewish Writing in Lost Tribes of Israel., 68 New York as foundational fi gure, 21 – 22 New York Dramatic Troupe, 234 “I’m a Yiddish Cowboy,” 71 New York in American Yiddish prose indigenousness and, 70 – 71 in Asch’s work, 398 , 404 – 405 , 408 – 409 Israel and, 27 – 29 in Demblin’s work, 408 – 409 Jewish characters absent from work the Holocaust and, 406 – 407 of, 243 in Ignatow’s work, 399 – 401 in Katchor’s work, 424 in Karpilove’s work, 403 Lazarus and, 35 in Kobrin’s work, 398 – 399 “Moshe from Nova Scotia,” 71 in Lamed Shapiro’s work, 406 Native Americans as viewed by, 67 – 69 in Luria’s work, 403 – 404 Orthodoxy of, 29 – 30 in Molodowsky’s work, 407 Sephardic ancestry of, 68 in New York (overview), 396 – 410 She Would Be a Soldier, or The Plains of in newspapers, 203 Chippewa, 2 5 in Opatoshu’s work, 401 , 406 – 407 “ Tsvishn indianer” (“Among Indians”), 71 in Paver’s work, 405 – 406 Twersky and, 292 politics, Americanization and, 405 – 406 vs. Wise, 29 – 30 in Serdatsky’s work, 402 – 403 “Yonkl the Cowboy Jew,” 71 in Sholem Aleichem’s work, 46 , 397 Zion/Zionism and, 28 – 30 , 68 in Singer’s work, 409 – 410 Nobel Prize, 11 , 52 , 368 , 495 – 496 , 592 , 629 in Tashrak’s work, 398 Noomin, Diane, 579 vs. Yiddish poetry, 203 Nordau, Max, 366 New York Jew (Kazin), 54 , 389 – 390 Norek, Josh, 312 The New Yorker (literary weekly), 511 , Norich, Anita, xiii , 14 , 268 , 488 – 499 514 – 515 , 574 , 594 – 596 , 628 – 631 , 636 The Normal Heart (Kramer), 553 Newhart, Bob, 609 Northern Exposure (television series), 71 Newman, Barnett, 591 Norton Anthology of Jewish American Newman, Lesleá, 358 Literature. See Jewish American Newman, Louis, 244 Literature: A Norton Anthology Newman, Naomi, 556 – 557 Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me (Pekar Newton, Adam Zachary, xiii , 14 , 505 – 517 and Waldman), 372 – 373 “Newyorkish” (Lamed Shapiro), 48 – 50 Notes from the Frontier (Nissenson), 368

711

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“Notes of her life in her own Hand” On Native Grounds (Kazin), 54 (Menken), 527 On Photography (Sontag), 463 – 465 “Notes on Camp” (Sontag), 548 , 556 On Second Avenue (Mlotek and Rosenfeld), Novak, David, 182 239 – 240 Novershtern, Avraham, xiii , 13 , 202 – 221 On the Other Side of the River ( Af yener zayt “ No-York” (Shimon Ginzburg), 286 , 288 , taykh) (Hirschbein), 232 290 , 507 On the Town (fi lm), 595 Nyburg, Sidney L., 112 – 114 , 116 On the Waterfront (fi lm), 587 Nyuansn (Canadian Yiddish literary O’Neill, Eugene, 234 – 235 , 551 journal), 436 “Onionskin,” 369 – 370 Onkl Moses (Asch), 404 – 405 , 408 – 409 Oates, Joyce Carol, 624 , 634 Opatoshu, Joseph, 401 – 403 , 406 – 407 Obejas, Achy, 57 – 58 , 634 Operation Shylock: A Confession (Philip Objectivist poets, 184 , 193 – 194 Roth), 41 – 44 , 347 – 348 , 368 – 369 , 372 O’Brien, Caraid, 558 Oppen, George, 193 – 194 , 295 “Ocho Kandelikas” (song), 312 – 313 Opper, Frederick Burr, 574 Ockman, Carol, 555 Opshernish (Waxman), 560 “Odem” (”Adam”) (Dropkin), 537 – 539 Ore the Beard, A Novel form the Life of Jewish Odets, Cliff ord, 250 , 551 Immigrants Who Built a New City in “Of Mice and Menschen: Jewish Comics America (Kobrin), 399 Come of Age” (Buhle), 572 – 573 Oren, Michael, 294 O’Gorman, Edmundo, 426 Ornitz, Samuel, 94 – 96 , 98 , 507 – 508 Oh Wholly Night & Other Jewish Solecisms Orringer, Julie, 627 (Deb Margolin), 557 – 558 Orthodox Judaism O’Hara, Frank, 295 American immigrants to Israel and, 373 the Ohio State University Cartoon in The Chosen, 137 , 368 Research Library, 574 in The Chosen People, 108 Oirich, Alan, 580 in comic books and graphic novels, Oklahoma! (Rogers and Hammerstein), 62 579 – 581 Old, Jewish, and Queer (Naomi Newman), in “The Convert,” 31 – 32 556 – 557 gay identity in context of, 552 – 553 The Old Bunch (anthology) (Meyer in “The Jewish War,” 370 Levin), 474 as literary theme, 373 – 374 “Old Complaints Revisited” (Sontag), millennial literature of, 634 152 – 153 Orthodox comics, 579 – 581 An Old Jew (Schisgal), 247 in Oyf vayte vegn, 400 The Old Neighborhood (Mamet), 252 rabbinate in Israel controlled by, 371 Old Wicked Songs (Marans), 254 – 255 writers’ attitudes toward, 373 Old Wine in a New Bottle (Schisgal), 247 Zionism and, 363 Oliphant, Laurence, 365 See also Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Olivas, Daniel, 634 Orvell, Miles, 571 – 572 “The Olive Branch” (Hyneman), 174 Oscar (Academy Award), 587 , 595 Olsen, Tillie, 71 – 72 , 478 Oschner, Gina, 629 Olshanetsky, Alexander, 226 Osherow, Jacqueline, 188 Omer-Sherman, Ranen, 578 “The Other Margaret” (Trilling), 505 , On a heym ( Without a Home) (Gordin), 228 511 – 512 “On Account of a Hat” (Sholem Ottoman Empire, 10 , 29 , 170 , 298 , 300 – 301 , Aleichem), 479 309 , 365 On Being Jewish (anthology) (Walden, “Our Country, Our Culture” ed.), 474 (symposium), 87 – 88

712

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Out of Egypt (Aciman), 322 – 323 , 325 – 326 as Jewish homeland, 365 , 422 Out of Place (Mandel), 419 – 420 in The Jewish War, 370 Out of Place (Said), 324 Middle Eastern Jewry and, 320 – 321 , 339 Out of Sight (Felder), 556 – 557 sympathy for, 372 Outside Over There (Sendak), 585 – 586 See also Israeli-Palestinian confl ict overdetermination, 124 , 130 , 132 , 138 , 141 – 142 Paley, Grace Oy Vey in a Manger (Sicks), 560 – 561 anthologized, 477 Oyf vayte vegn (Ignatov), 399 – 400 assimilation in work of, 149 Der oytser ( The Treasure) (David Pinski), 232 at Princeton conference, 3 , 624 – 625 Ozick, Cynthia comic doubt in work of, 146 on Angels in America, 511 emergence of, 132 emergence of, 132 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1 4 7 English Language and, 54 and exile in New York, 387 “Envy; or Yiddish in America,” 125 – 126 , The Little Disturbances of Man, 125 134 – 135 , 489 “The Loudest Voice,” 477 Foreign Bodies, 54 New York in work of, 383 the Holocaust in the work of, 134 – 135 “Politics,” 386 on The Human Stain, 5 1 3– 5 1 4 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 stature of, 3 , 144 “Literary Blacks and Jews,” 515 – 516 Yiddish language and, 498 The Messiah of Stockholm, 158 , 348 , Palnik, Paul, 574 350 – 352 , 356 Palumbo-Liu, David, 6 the new Yiddish and, 357 Panofsky, Ruth, 440 New York in work of, 383 Papernick, Jon, 371 – 372 in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 Parade (Uhry), 253 – 254 The Pagan Rabbi, 134 – 135 Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish publications of, continuing, 622 Writing, 444 The Puttermesser Papers, 353 , 385 – 387 Paris Is Out! (Seff ), 242 Regelson and, 283 – 284 Parrington, Vernon, 457 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Partisan Review (American quarterly), The Shawl, 157 – 158 , 352 – 353 87 – 88 , 124 – 125 , 131 , 135 , 449 – 450 , stature of, 3 454 – 456 , 463 , 613 on translation, 489 – 491 Passage from Home (Isaac Rosenfeld), Trust , 125 – 126 103 – 106 , 508 – 510 Yiddish and Hebrew in work of, 498 Paver, Chaver (Gershon Einbinder), 405 – 406 The Pagan Rabbi (Ozick), 134 – 135 The Pawnbroker (Wallant), 134 – 135 Page, P. K., 439 Payomet Performing Arts Center (Cape Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza (Shah) (the Cod), 240 younger), 331 – 333 , 335 – 336 Pekar, Harvey, 372 – 373 , 570 , 572 – 573 Pahlavi, Reza (Shah) (the elder), 335 – 336 The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish The Painted Bird (Kosin 8ski), 354 – 355 Verse, 495 Pale of Settlement, 52 , 389 The People (Malamud), 423 – 424 The Pale of Settlement (Margot Singer), 372 The People From Heaven (Sanford), 62 – 63 Palestine The People of Forever are Not Afraid Exodus and, 367 – 368 (Boianjiu), 374 in A Flag Is Born, 2 5 1– 2 5 2 The People vs. The God of Vengeance Halkin and, 284 – 285 , 289 – 290 (Taichman), 240 , 558 Hebraism and, 281 , 287 – 289 People’s Theater (New York), 233 Holocaust survivors in, 368 Perelman, Yosef. See Dymow, Osip

713

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Perera, Victor, 308 Hebraism and, 288 Peretz, Isaac Leib (Y. L. Peretz), 49 , 202 , Lazarus and, 179 – 180 233 – 235 , 238 , 498 literary commerce and, 633 performance art, 555 – 558 Moise and, 169 , 176 Perhift Players (Milwaukee), 239 of Nyburg, 112 – 113 Perlman, William, 246 Schwarz and, 484 Perlmutter, Sholem, 226 secularity and, 182 Perry, Ralph Barton, 23 Zionism and, 366 Persepolis [ I & II ] (Satrapi), 331 – 332 See also assimilation ; Jewish Studies; Persky, Daniel, 282 multiculturalism ; Native Studies Petropolis (Ulinich), 630 Podhoretz, Norman, 477 – 478 Phillips, Jonas M., 243 Poe, Edgar Allen, 153 Phillips, William, 456 “Poems and Other Visions of Jews Picasso, Pablo, 591 from Tribal Times to the Present” Picon, Molly, 236 , 270 – 271 (Rothenberg), 185 Pictures at an Exhibition (Houghteling), 627 “Poetry and the Sacred” (symposium Piercy, Marge theme), 184 activism of, 543 “Poetry and/or the Sacred” (Charles The Art of Blessing the Day, 543 – 544 Bernstein), 184 at Princeton conference, 624 – 625 The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from as feminist, 539 – 545 the Jewish Tradition (Cole), 190 gender poetics of, 525 , 539 , 543 – 545 Polacco, Patricia, 514 Gone to Soldiers, 370 “Politics” (Paley), 386 “Habondia,” 543 Pollack, Eileen, 627 Jewish traditions in the poetry Popkin, Henry, 243 of, 543 – 545 Poppa (Bella and Samuel Spewack), 246 – 247 The Moon is Always Female, 543 popular culture. See Jewish American “The sabbath of mutual respect,” 543 comic books and graphic novels ; “Tefi llah (Prayer),” 544 Jewish American popular culture; A Pile of Stones (Nissenson), 368 Ladino music Pink Martini (band), 312 Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 586 – 587 , 589 – 590 Pinsker, Leon, 365 port Jews, 416 Pinski, David, 232 , 246 Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth) Pinsky, Robert, 3 , 636 African Americans in, 138 Dos pintele yid ( The Little Bit of Jewishness) Americanness in, 616 (Zeifert), 233 anti-Semitism in, 614 – 615 “Pittsburgh, PA” (comedy song), 603 – 604 assimilation in, 137 – 142 Pizmon kushi ” [Negro melody] Lenny Bruce and, 611 – 612 (Halkin), 507 as comic narrative model, 617 The Place Will Comfort You (Naama cultural marginalization in, 612 – 613 , 615 Goldstein), 373 The Ghost Writer and, 149 , 345 Plain, Belva, 370 , 627 the Holy Land in, 140 – 141 plantation Jews, 417 Israel in, 139 – 141 , 611 , 615 – 616 The Plot (Eisner), 593 The Jazz Singer and, 266 – 267 The Plot Against America (Philip Roth), Jewish American identity in, 138 – 140 , 611 , 150 – 151 , 348 , 511 – 512 613 , 615 – 616 pluralism, 4 linguistic issues in, 612 – 615 American pluralism, 169 , 176 , as overdetermined, 138 , 141 – 142 179 – 180 , 288 sexual pursuit in, 138 , 611 – 612 ethnicity and, 9 Silverman in context of, 617 , 619

714

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“The Position of Translated Literature “Psalm” (Oppen), 193 – 194 within the Literary Polysystem” Psycho (fi lm), 591 (Evan-Zohar), 493 Public Enemy (fi lm), 260 “Postemas de Mujer” (newspaper The Public is Never Wrong (Zukor), 597 column), 299 Pulitzer Prize, 125 , 252 – 253 , 554 , 573 , post-Halakhic Jews, 559 – 562 589 – 590 , 592 – 593 Potash and Perlmutter (Montague Glass), Purim, 224 , 231 , 561 – 562 243 – 244 See also Esther Potok, Chaim, 137 , 272 , 368 , 634 Purimspil (theatrical production), 561 – 562 Pound, Ezra, 439 , 585 The Puritan Origins of the American Self Prager, Emily, 346 (Bercovitch), 7 The Prague Orgy (Philip Roth), 349 , 351 , 356 Puritans “A Prayer for Dew” (Paul Goodman), 477 America as the promised land for, 10 Preil, Gabriel, 217 , 286 , 292 – 293 , 295 – 296 on America as Zion, 363 Prell, Riv-Ellen, 273 as the elected nation, 170 – 171 “Prelude” (Jeff ers), 542 as the fulfi llment of history, 171 Preminger, Otto, 263 , 272 , 591 Israel and, 7 – 8 , 10 , 63 – 64 , 69 Preparing for Sabbath (Rapaport), 369 – 370 Jews and, 7 , 64 , 69 Preview Group (Canadian poets Lazarus and, 9 group), 439 national project of, 23 – 24 , 63 Previn, André, 587 – 588 as the new Chosen People, 7 Price, Richard, 154 – 156 as the new Israelites, 69 The Princess Casamassima (Henry The Puritan Origins of the American Self, 7 James), 460 religious self hood of, 164 – 165 Princeton University, 3 , 624 – 625 , 636 Winthrop and, 26 The Private Life of the Master Race (Brecht), Zion and, 363 254 – 255 Di puste kretshme ( The Idle/Haunted Inn) The Producers (Brooks), 589 (Hirschbein), 232 The Producers (fi lm and play), 248 The Puttermesser Papers (Ozick), 353 , 385 – 387 The Professor of Desire (Philip Roth), 148 – 149 El Progreso (Ladino Newspaper), 299 – 300 QB VII (Uris), 343 , 367 – 368 Prokofi ev, Sergei, 585 – 586 La Québécoite (Robin), 442 – 443 Proletarian Poets, 203 , 205 Queer Jewish Wedding (theatrical “ Der Proletarishker Magg id” (Cahan production), 560 newspaper column), 453 – 454 queer performance in American theater Proletpen writers, 213 in Boys in the Band, 547 – 548 , 550 The Promised Land (Antin), 37 , 52 , 54 , 88 – 90 , in family-based problem plays, 551 – 555 96 , 363 in Fierstein’s plays, 254 , 551 – 552 Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction in Finn’s plays, 254 on Longing and Belonging (anthology) in The Human Stain, 510 – 511 (Derek Rubin, ed.), 481 Jewish identity and, 548 The Prophet Jonah; or, The Journey through in Kushner’s plays, 254 , 510 – 511 Water and Fire ( Yona hanovi, oder di in Larry Kramer’s plays, 553 rayze durkh vaser un fayer) (Hurwitz), and obscenity, 549 225 – 226 overview, 547 – 562 Protestant Reformation, 23 – 24 solo performance art and, 555 – 558 Protocols of the Elders of Zion (anti-Semitic vs. theatrical normalization, 555 forgery), 592 – 593 yiddishkayt and, 558 – 559 Proust, Marcel, 151 See also homosexuality: in Jewish Pryor, Richard, 611 American drama

715

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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question Rappaport, Shloyme Zanvi (Ansky), 237 (Boyarin and Itzkovitz, eds.), 548 Rashi (Jewish commentator), 35 The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Rashi hakadosh: A Light after the Dark Ages Graphic Novel (Tabachnik), 579 – 580 (Mahrwood Press), 580 – 581 “The Question of American Jewish Ratner, Austin, 627 Poetry” (Hollander), 183 Ravel, Maurice, 590 A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Ravelstein (Bellow), 145 – 146 , 153 Yiddish (Hellerstein, ed.), 499 Ravvin, Norman, 420 , 444 the Quiet Revolution (Canada), in Raw (alternative comix magazine), 571 Canada, 441 Raw 3 (Spiegelman and Mouly), 572 Ray, Johnny, 595 Rabbeinu Shmuel HaNagid: A Tale of the Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafi si), 331 – 332 Golden Age 2 (Mahrwood Press), Reading Myself and Others (Philip Roth), 580 – 581 345 – 346 The Rabbi and the Toyota Dealer Reading Rainbow (PBS production), 514 (Schisgal), 247 Reagan, Ronald, 255 , 554 Rabbi Harvey books (Sheinkin), 579 – 580 “Reality in America” (Trilling), 457 The Rabbi’s Cat (Sfar), 578 The Rebbitzen from Israel (musical Raber, Jesse, xiv , 14 , 449 – 466 comedy), 238 Raboy, Isaac, 46 – 48 , 71 “Recalculating” (Charles Bernstein poem), Rachlin, Nahid, 331 – 332 186 – 187 Rachmaninoff , Sergei, 586 – 587 , 590 Recalculating (Charles Bernstein volume), racism 185 – 187 Apess and, 69 Red Jacket (chief ), 68 dramatists addressing, 250 , 253 Refi ner’s Fire (Helprin), 370 in Hobomok, 68 Reform Judaism in Hollywood, 264 in The Chosen People, 108 immigrants facing, 2 , 49 in “The Convert,” 31 Jewface performance and, 604 German Jews and, 10 Jewish American identity and, 11 Jewishness defi ned in, 363 Jewish writers critiquing, 71 – 72 Lazarus and, 176 , 533 against Jews and Native American, 64 Moise and, 165 , 168 , 525 in “ New Yorkish, ” 4 9 Wise’s advocacy of, 29 , 33 , 36 Silverman’s performance and, 617 – 619 Reform Judaism (magazine), 577 “Radical Novel Reconsidered” (Alan Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Wald), 62 – 63 Fiction, 633 Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Regan, Sylvia, 247 – 248 (Miller and Morris, eds.), 185 , 187 Regelson, Avraham, 283 – 284 , 292 , 489 Ragen, Naomi, 294 , 375 “Rehearsal for the Downfall of Rags (Regan), 247 – 248 Shoeshine: An Immigrant Justice Ragtime (Doctorow), 147 – 148 Purim Spectacular!” (Purimspil Rahimieh, Nasrin, 442 performance), 561 – 562 Rahv, Philip, 455 – 457 , 477 – 478 Rehearsing Vengeance (Paula Vogel), 558 Rakosi, Carl, 193 Reich, Tova, 370 , 372 Rakov, Nokhem, 233 Reigert, Peter, 273 Ram, Buck, 608 – 609 Reiner, Carl, 267 Rand, Paul, 591 Reinhardt, Max, 251 – 252 Rapaport, Nessa, 369 – 370 , 480 – 481 Reisen, Abraham (Avraham; Avrom), 211 , Raphael, Lev, 358 472 , 478 , 507 Raphaelson, Samson, 31 , 248 Reiss, Robert Eliot (Reuven Ben-Yosef), 295

716

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Reissa, Eleanor, 237 – 239 “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Rejewvenation festival (Toronto), 560 Identity,” 540 – 541 Relacion (Montezinos), 65 – 67 , 69 Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, 539 – 540 Religion. See Judaism/Jewish Religion territoriality and, 425 – 426 religious self hood, overview, 164 – 180 Walt Whitman and, 542 “The Reluctant Kabbalist’s Sonnet” (Cole), “Yom Kippur 1984,” 542 – 543 191 – 192 Your Native Land, Your Life, 370 , 542 – 543 Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the A Rich Garland: Poems for A. M. Klein (Mayne History of Puertorriqueñas (Levins and Rotchin, eds.), 440 Morales), 426 – 427 Richler, Mordecai, 440 Remnick, David, 628 – 630 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 415 Rennó, Roseângela, 413 – 414 Montreal and, 414 “Restlessness” (Lazarus), 176 Native Americans in, 424 – 425 “Re-thinking Secularization” (Novak), 182 nature and landscape in, 414 – 415 Reuben, lost tribe of, 65 Solomon Gursky Was Here, 424 , 440 “Rêver la langue disparue” (Robin), 443 stature of, 444 Rexite, Seymour, 240 territoriality in, 424 Reyn, Irina, 444 Richler, Nancy, 444 Reyzen, Avrom (Abraham Reisen). See Riesman, David, 87 Reisen, Abraham (Avraham) Riggs, Lynn Reznikoff , Charles, 184 – 185 , 193 “The Cherokee Night,” 62 , 72 – 73 Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin), 586 – 587 Green Grow the Lilacs, 6 2 Ribalow, Harold U., 474 – 477 Jews identifi ed with Cherokees by, Ribalow, Menachem, 287 , 475 6 2, 7 2– 7 3 Rice, Elmer, 244 , 250 – 251 “Russet Mantle,” 62 Rich, Adrienne Sanford’s relationships with, 62 – 63 , activism of, 539 – 540 7 2– 7 3, 7 5– 7 6 Ashkenazi ancestry of, 540 The Rise of American Jewish Literature; An “At the Jewish New Year,” 541 Anthology of Selections from the Major An Atlas of the Diffi cult World, 425 – 426 Novels (Levin and Angoff , eds.), 478 “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” 539 The Rise of David Levinsky (Cahan) awards won by, 539 assimilation in, 90 – 92 A Change of World, 539 Christianity in, 110 – 111 Christianity and, 543 English language in, 50 , 90 – 92 Diving into the Wreck, 539 – 540 Howells’s infl uence on, 50 as feminist, 370 , 539 – 545 Lower East Side in, 90 gender poetics of, 525 , 539 – 543 Nyburg on, 107 – 108 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Isaac Rosenfeld and, 105 the Holocaust and, 426 , 540 serialization of, 131 J e ff ers and, 542 socialism and, 133 “Jerusalem,” 541 – 542 in the theater, 238 – 239 Jewish identity of, 540 – 543 The Rise of Silas Lapham (Howells), 50 Leafl ets, 541 Riversayd Drayv ( Riverside Drive) lesbianism of, 370 , 540 , 544 – 545 (Kobrin), 233 Molodowsky and, 541 – 542 Rivkin, Borekh, 401 nature and landscape in work Robbins, Trina, 579 of, 425 – 426 Robin, Régine, 442 – 443 Nazism and, 542 – 543 L’Amour du Yiddish: écriture juive et Sephardic ancestry of, 540 sentiment de la langue, 443 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, 539 Ashkenazi ancestry of, 442

717

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Robin, Régine (cont.) “King Solomon,” 479 – 480 Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 Passage from Home, 103 – 106 , 508 – 510 as Holocaust survivor, 442 Yiddish culture and, 498 isolation of, 434 Rosenfeld, Moishe, 239 – 240 multilingualism of, 442 Rosenfeld, Morris La Québécoite, 442 – 443 in The Jewish Anthology, 4 7 2 “Rêver la langue disparue,” 443 poems of, set to music, 496 – 497 writing in French, 434 , 442 – 443 as predecessor, 202 Robinson, Edward G., 246 – 247 , 260 socialism and, 203 Rochlin, Harriet, 422 Songs from the Ghetto and, 204 , The Rocking Chair (A,M. Klein), 439 496 – 497 Rodríguez, Roberto, 313 – 314 Songs of Labor, 497 Rogers, Ginger, 595 success trajectory of, 204 – 205 Rogin, Michael, 264 – 265 Rosenthal, Rachel, 555 Roiphe, Anne, 369 Rosenzweig, Gershon, 282 the role of the public intellectual in “Rosh Hashanah” (Menken), 528 American culture Roskies, David G., 409 , 481 overview, 449 – 466 Ross, George, 245 – 246 See also Arnold, Matthew; Arnoldian Rossant, Colette, 321 , 325 culture; Cahan, Abraham; Partisan Rosten, Leo, 247 – 248 Review; Sontag, Susan; Trilling, Lionel Rotboym, Yankev, 234 – 235 Romaine, Jenny, 561 – 562 Roth, Henry “Roman Berman, Massage Therapist” African American cultural (Bezmozgis), 630 – 631 milieu of, 508 Romance of a Jewess (fi lm), 259 – 261 An American Type, 508 – 510 Roosevelt, Theodore, 595 anthologized, 479 – 480 Rosa Machree (Howard E. Rose), 244 , 549 Antin and, 507 – 508 Rose, Howard E., 244 , 549 Bellow and, 507 – 510 Rosen, Jonathan, 387 , 389 , 637 Brownsville and, 385 Rosen, Norma, 346 , 637 Call It Sleep ( See as main heading) Rosenbaum, Peretz (Paul Rand), 591 Doctorow and, 507 – 508 Rosenbaum, Thane, 353 – 356 English Language and, 54 – 57 Rosenberg, Ethel, 554 Gold and, 507 – 508 Rosenberg, Harold, 593 Hebrew language and, 42 – 43 Rosenberg, Joel, 265 immigration and modernity in work Rosenfarb, Chava of, 99 – 103 awards won by, 437 on indigenous identities, 72 Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 as intergenerational fi gure, 507 – 508 death of, 443 and James Joyce, 55 – 56 Di goldene keyt, 437 in Jewish-American Stories, 479 – 480 as Holocaust survivor, 437 – 438 justice themes of, 384 isolation of, 434 , 438 Kazin and, 507 – 508 landscape in work of, 414 – 415 Lower East Side and, 414 Manger Prize won by, 437 Malamud and, 507 – 510 as self-translator, 437 – 438 Mercy of a Rude Stream, 509 writing in Yiddish, 434 , 437 New York in work of, 381 – 383 , 389 Rosenfeld, Isaac in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Ozick and, 507 – 508 alienation and assimilation themes in, Paley and, 507 – 508 88 , 106 Philip Roth and, 507 – 508 immigration, modernity and, 103 – 106 stature of, 3

718

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“The Surveyor,” 479 – 480 Remnick and, 629 Yiddish American poetry and, 510 Sabbath’s Theater, 150 Roth, Laurence, xiv , 14 , 566 – 581 on safety in America, 1 Roth, Philip as scholar, 627 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 stature of, 3 , 144 accused of anti-Semitism, 128 – 129 , territoriality and, 423 345 – 346 When She Was Good, 1 4 8– 1 4 9 on The Adventures of Augie March, 127 “Writers from the Other Europe” American Pastoral, 115 , 423 project and, 349 as an American writer, 130 – 131 , 150 “Writing About Jews,” 128 – 129 anthologized, 474 , 477 – 478 “Writing American Fiction,” 127 Bellow and, 128 , 130 Yiddish language in work of, 42 – 43 controversies surrounding, 129 , 345 – 346 Rothberg, Michael, 360 , 573 , 578 “The Conversion of the Jews,” 128 Rothenberg, Jerome The Counterlife, 347 , 368 – 369 A Big Jewish Book, 185 , 189 – 190 “Defender of the Faith,” 128 Cole and, 190 “Eli, the Fanatic,” 41 , 345 , 477 – 478 Exiled in the World, 189 – 190 emergence of, 132 Jewish identity and, 72 English Language and, 41 – 44 , 52 “Poems and Other Visions of “Epstein,” 128 – 129 Jews from Tribal Times to the Exit Ghost, 346 Present,” 185 The Facts, 1 4 9 Rothko, Marc, 591 The Ghost Writer, 149 – 150 , 158 , “Roti and Homentashen: The Palace 344 – 347 , 349 Workers Revolt!” (Purimspil Goodbye, Columbus, 125 , 127 – 129 , performance), 561 – 562 148 – 149 , 345 Royal, Derek Parker, 577 The Great American Novel, 1 4 8– 1 4 9 Rozenmacher, Germán, 426 The Human Stain, 5 1 0– 5 1 1, 5 1 3– 5 1 4 Rubinstein, Rachel, xiv , 13 , 62 – 78 “‘I Always Wanted You to Admire Rudahl, Sharon, 579 My Fasting’; or, Looking at Rudnick, Paul, 555 Kaf ka,” 350 Rukeyser, Muriel, 507 – 508 on I. B. Singer, 129 Rumshinsky, Joseph, 226 Jewish belonging and, 130 “Russet Mantle” (Riggs), 62 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 Russian Constructivism, 555 – 556 , 591 Letting Go, 1 4 8– 1 4 9 Russian futurism, 287 My Life as A Man, 1 4 8– 1 4 9 nature and landscape in, 423 Sabar, Ariel, 376 , 634 Nemesis , 127 , 348 “The sabbath of mutual respect” in The New Yorker, 6 2 8– 6 2 9 (Piercy), 543 Newark and, 127 – 128 Sabbath’s Theater (Philip Roth), 150 Operation Shylock: A Confession, 41 – 44 , Sackler, Harry, 288 – 289 , 291 – 292 347 – 348 , 368 – 369 , 372 Sacks, Oliver, 584 – 585 The Plot Against America, 150 – 151 , 348 The Sacrifi ce (Wiseman), 440 as a poet, 182 Sadan, Dov, 12 Portnoy’s Complaint ( See as main heading) Saff ron Sky (Asayesh), 331 – 332 The Prague Orgy, 349 , 351 , 356 Safo (S appho) (Gordin), 228 The Professor of Desire, 1 4 8– 1 4 9 Safran Foer, Jonathan. See Foer, publications of, continuing, 622 Jonathan Safran readership of, 345 Sahl, Mort, 609 Reading Myself and Others, 345 – 346 Said, Edward, 324 , 326 religious fanaticism in work of, 372 “Saint Michael’s Chapel” (Lazarus), 176

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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Israel and, 484 632 – 633 , 637 NAJAL and, 484 Samuel, Maurice, 367 , 472 , 496 Ribalow vs., 475 – 476 Sandburg, Carl, 287 Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, 590 Sandrow, Nahma, xiv , 13 , 224 – 241 Sciaky, Léon, 301 – 303 Sanford, John (Julian Shapiro) Scliar, Moacyr, 419 , 422 Cherokee heritage of, 62 , 72 – 73 Scott, F. R., 439 The People From Heaven, 6 2– 6 3 Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Riggs’s relationships with, 62 – 63 , Jewish Fiction (anthology) (Bukiet and 7 2– 7 3, 7 5– 7 6 Roskies, eds.), 481 Scenes from the Life of an American Se questo è un humo [If this is a man] (Primo Jew, 6 2– 6 3 Levi), 360 Sankoff , Irene Carl, 552 Searches and Seizures (Elkin), 146 Sarna, Jonathan, 34 Sears, Dovid, 580 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 513 Seaver, Edwin, 474 Satrapi, Marjane, 331 – 332 Second Avenue Theatre, 233 Satula, Bula (Moïse Soulam), 299 Second Hand Smoke (Rosenbaum), 354 – 355 Saving Tania’s Privates (Katan), 556 – 557 Second Lebanon War, 372 Sayrafi ezadeh, Saïd, 634 The Second Scroll (A. M. Klein), 439 Scenes from the Life of an American Jew secularity (Sanford), 8 , 62 – 63 American, 8 , 24 , 32 Schaeff er, Susan Fromberg, 346 American Jewish dispensationalism and, 37 Schatz, Thomas, 262 defi ned, 182 Schechter, Ben, 238 – 239 Jewish cosmopolitanism and, 6 Schildkraut, Rudolf, 549 in Lazarus’s work, 177 , 180 Schildkraut Theater, 234 overview, 182 – 198 Schiller, Friedrich, 228 and the sacred, 183 Schimmel, Harold, 295 in Yiddish literature, 71 , 187 – 189 Schisgal, Murray, 247 Secularity, Sacredness, and Jewish Schlam, Helena Frenkil, 574 American Poets 1950–2000 (Shreiber) Schlesinger, Emma Adatto, 303 – 305 (overview), 182 Schmidt, Matthias, 589 Secunda, Sholem, 226 The Schocken Book of Jewish American Fiction Sedgewick, Catherine Maria, 68 (anthology) (Solataroff and Rapoport, Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 348 – 349 , 554 – 555 eds.), 480 – 481 See Under: Love (David Grossman) Scholem, Gershom, 189 – 191 Segal, Erich, 637 Schreier, Benjamin, xiv , 13 , 124 – 142 Segal, Francesca, 637 Schulberg, Budd, 507 – 508 Segal, J. I. Schulman, Sarah, 552 , 558 biographical sketch of, 434 Schulz, Bruno, 158 , 349 – 351 , 353 – 354 Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 Schwartz, Delmore, 115 – 116 , 145 , 498 , Di yunge and, 435 507 – 508 isolation of, 434 , 436 – 437 Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 385 “Late Autumn in Montreal,” 435 Schwartz, Maurice, 234 , 238 , 408 Mani Leib and, 435 Schwartz, Y. Y. (Y. Y. Svartz), 217 – 218 , 507 as modernist, 435 Schwarz, Leo W. Montreal and, 435 – 436 as editor of The Jewish Caravan, 4 7 3 writing in Yiddish, 434 goals of, 472 – 473 , 475 Segal, Lore, 507 – 508 Hillel and, 471 Seiden, Joseph, 235 insecure about Judaism, 475 , 480 – 481 , 484 Seidman, Naomi, 76

720

Index

Seize the Day (Bellow), 125 Shaked, Gershon, 12 Self Loathing Comics, 5 7 6 Shakespeare, William, 228 , 439 , 488 Selma (Alabama), 426 Shalit, Wendy, 635 “Send in the Clowns” (Sondheim), 590 Shaloman (Shaloman), 580 Sendak, Maurice, 585 – 586 Shandler, Jeff rey, 268 , 478 , 558 – 559 Sephardic Judaism The Shanghai Gesture (Colton), 549 in the Americas, 416 – 418 Shani, Boianjiu, 634 in anthologies, 481 , 636 Shap ( The Shop) (Leivick), 232 Ashkenazi Judaism and, 298 – 299 , 310 , Shapiro, Edward, 550 315 – 316 Shapiro, Gerald, 481 – 482 in Canada, 434 , 441 Shapiro, Julian. See Sanford, John colonial settlements of, 298 , 416 – 417 Shapiro, Karl, 182 – 183 contemporary works published Shapiro, Lamed, 48 – 50 , 406 , 478 about, 634 Shaw, Irwin, 126 in graphic novels, 578 Shaw, Peggy, 557 – 558 in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl: An Shaw, Robert, 244 – 245 Anonymous Autobiography, 96 The Shawl (Ozick), 157 – 158 , 352 – 353 historical narratives of, 416 – 418 , 427 Shaylok un zayn tokhter ( Shylock’s Daughter) Latin Americans and, 315 (Zahav), 234 Longfellow and, 297 – 298 A Shayna Maidel (Lebow), 254 – 255 in the Middle East, 322 – 323 , 325 She Would Be a Soldier, or The Plains of Morales and, 426 – 427 Chippewa (Noah), 25 Sephardic expulsion, 426 – 427 Shechner, Mark, 449 , 622 – 623 in the U. S. Jewish community, 10 Sheinkin, Steve, 579 – 580 See also Carvalho, Solomon Nunes de; Sheldon, Edward, 549 Ladino in the U. S.; Lazarus, Emma; “She’ll Be Coming ‘round the Katzkills” Moise, Penina; Obejas, Achy; Ornitz, (Mickey Katz), 606 Samuel; Ottoman Empire; Rich, Shepard, Sadia, 634 Adrienne; Shapiro, Lamed Shere, Jeremy, 472 Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Sherman, Jason, 420 – 421 Years of a Literary Legacy (anthology) Shibolim (Sheaves) (Hebrew journal), 282 (Matza, ed.), 481 Shipman, David, 248 – 250 The Septembers of Shiraz Shlonsky, Avraham, 288 (Sofer), 334 – 339 Shmendrik (Goldfadn), 225 the Septuagint, 489 – 491 , 529 Shmuel HaNagid: Nagdila: A Tale of the Serdatsky, Yente, 403 Golden Age (Mahrwood press), 580 – 581 A Serious Man (fi lm), 259 , 272 – 275 Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Rabinovitch) Setton, Ruth Knafo, 634 The Jackpot ( Dos groyse gevins/200,000), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (fi lm version), 231 – 232 , 234 , 237 589 – 590 adaptations of works by, 238 Seventh Zionist Congress (1905), 422 Agentn , 237 Sex (West), 549 anthologized, 478 – 479 Sfar, Joann, 578 Y. D. Berkowitz and, 282 Shabbatai Zvi (historical messiah The Bloody Joke ( Der blutiger shpas), fi gure), 294 231 – 232 Shabot 6000 (Internet comic strip), 580 – 581 conversational style in, 391 – 394 Shadows on the Hudson (I. B. Singer), and fi lm, 46 409 – 410 Hard to Be a Jew ( Shver tsu zayn a yid), Shah of Iran. See Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza 231 – 232 , 247 – 248 (Shah) (the younger) If I Were You, 247 – 248

721

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Sholem Aleichem (Shalom Sing, Stranger (anthology) (Benjamin and Rabinovitch) (cont.) Barbara Harshav, eds.), 495 Jackpot , 234 , 237 Singer, Isaac Bashevis Motl, The Cantor’s Son, 44 – 46 , 50 , 397 anthologized, 478 “On Account of A Hat,” 479 Asch and, 409 – 410 Tevye der milkhiker/Tevye the Dairyman, cultural loss and, 495 93 , 231 – 232 emergence of, 132 Yiddish culture and, 498 Enemies: A Love Story, 410 Yiddish language in, 44 , 46 , 50 The Family Moskat, 124 – 125 , 495 Show Boat (Broadway musical), 589 – 590 Fiddler on the Roof and, 268 show business themes, 248 , 258 – 259 , in Forverts, 124 – 125 262 – 263 “Gimpel the Fool” (“Gimpel Tam”), Shrayer, Maxim D., 444 124 – 125 , 237 , 495 Shreiber, Maeera Y., xiv , 13 , 182 – 198 literary family of, 636 – 637 Shriftn (Yiddish publication), 71 as modernist, 269 Shtern, Sholem, 443 Mosley and, 517 Shteyngart, Gary, 444 , 481 , 510 , 622 , 628 – 629 Nobel prize won by, 495 Shtoltsenberg, Aba, 217 realism of, 129 Shulamis, oder bas Yerusholayim ( Shulamis; Shadows on the Hudson, 409 – 410 or, Daughter of Jerusalem) (Goldfadn), “ Der Spoinozist,” 517 225 , 237 , 239 – 240 stature of, 144 , 203 Shuster, Joe, 574 – 575 translation issues and, 489 – 490 , 495 Shver tsu zayn a yid ( Hard to Be a Jew) on Yentl, 268 – 269 (Sholem Aleichem), 231 – 232 , 247 – 248 Yiddish language and, 44 , 124 – 125 Siberye ( Siberia) Gordin, 227 Singer, Israel Joshua, 495 , 498 , 636 – 637 Siegel, Jerry, 574 – 575 Singer, Margot, 372 Sifton, Claire and Paul, 250 Singin’ in the Rain (fi lm), 595 Silberschlag, Eisig, 293 , 507 “Sister Hills” (Nathan Englander), 371 – 372 Silkine, Benjamin Nahum, 290 – 291 The Sisters Rosensweig (Wasserstein), 253 Silver, Joan Micklin and Raphael, 273 “The Situation of the American Silver, Monroe, 603 – 605 , 608 Intellectual at the Present Time” Silver, Nicky, 552 (Trilling), 460 Silverman, Sarah, 617 Six Day War (Arab-Israeli War) (1967), 343 , Silverstein & Co. (Miller), 552 363 , 611 , 616 Simic, Charles, 593 Skibell, Joseph, 628 Simkhovitch, Simkha, 443 Skipper Next to God (Hartog), 244 – 245 Simon, Kate, 385 Slobin, Mark, 606 Simon, Neil Sloves, Chaim, 237 Biloxi Blues, 249 – 250 , 252 – 253 Smith, A. J. M., 439 Brighton Beach Memoirs, 252 – 253 Smith, Joseph, 292 Broadway Bound, 252 – 253 Smith, Sidonie, 331 – 332 family-based problem plays and, 551 Smithsonian Institution, 240 – 241 Laughter on the 23rd Floor, 252 – 253 Smoove, J. B., 513 – 514 Lost in Yonkers, 252 – 253 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Rich), 539 The Sunshine Boys, 238 – 239 , 252 – 253 Snoop Dog, 512 Simón Brumelstein, Knight of the Indies socialism ( Simón Brumelstein, el caballero de among Canadian Jewish immigrants, Indias) (Rozenmacher), 426 432 – 433 Sinatra, Frank, 597 as assimilation, 106 Sinclair, Jo, 476 – 478 of Cahan, 90 , 451 – 455 , 465 – 466

722

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contested, 133 Judaism and, 464 – 465 in El Progreso, 300 mind/experience theories of, 462 – 466 Michael Gold and, 97 on morality, 462 Klepfi sz grounded in, 188 “Notes on Camp,” 548 , 556 and post-Enlightenment Europe, 71 “Old Complaints Revisited,” 152 – 153 Morris Rosenfeld and, 203 On Photography, 463 – 465 socialist press, 454 pornography and, 461 , 463 – 464 Yiddish American poetry and, 203 Styles of Radical Will, 462 – 464 vs. Zionism, 363 The Volcano Lover, 152 – 153 Sofer, Dalia, 334 – 339 , 634 “What’s Happening in America,” 463 Soff er, Jessica, 634 Soreanu, Mary, 238 Sof-shavua ameriqani (American Weekend) Soulam, Moïse. See Satula, Bula (Green), 295 South Pacifi c (Broadway musical), 589 – 590 Sokoloff , Naomi, xiv , 14 , 362 – 376 Spartacus (Fast), 126 Solas, Moïs, 301 Spayzman, Tsipora, 238 – 239 Solataroff , Ted, 480 – 481 Spewack, Bella and Samuel, 246 – 247 Sollors, Werner, xiv – xv , 5 , 13 , 87 – 116 , 180 , Spiegelman, Art 289 , 633 American Jewish graphic novel status Solomon, Alisa, xv , 14 , 547 – 562 and, 578 Solomon Gursky Was Here (Mordecai at Princeton conference, 3 , 624 – 625 Richler), 424 , 440 in exhibitions, 574 Solotareff , Ted, 152 In the Shadow of No Towers, 359 , 391 Some Like It Hot (fi lm), 597 Jewish American comics development Someone Else in Queens is Queer and, 576 (Elovich), 556 Jewish melancholy and, 344 – 345 Sondheim, Stephen, 589 – 590 “Masters of American Comics” “The Song of Hiawatha” (Longfellow), 71 exhibition and, 576 “Song of Myself ” (Whitman), 531 – 532 Maus , 352 , 354 – 355 , 568 , 571 – 573 , Song of Slaves in the Desert (Cheuse), 417 575 – 576 , 637 “Song of the Shattering Vessels” (Cole), 192 New Yorker magazine cover by, 514 – 515 Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter Pulitzer Prize won by, 573 , 592 – 593 (Manseau), 633 Raw 3 , 5 7 2 Songs from the Ghetto (anthology) (Wiener, Spielberg, Steven, 272 , 275 ed.), 204 , 496 – 497 Spigelgass, Leonard, 252 “Songs of a Semite” (poem) (Lazarus), 365 Spinoza, Baruch, 237 Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death and The Spirit (Eisner), 569 , 593 Other Poems (Lazarus), 9 , 532 Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Songs of Labor (Morris Rosenfeld), 497 Quarter in New York (Hapgood), 497 Sontag, Susan, 156 “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Against Interpretation, 462 , 464 Identity” (Rich), 540 – 541 on the American cultural landscape, Split Britches (theatrical troupe), 557 – 558 463 – 464 “ Der Spoinozist” (I. B. Singer), 517 Arnold and, 449 – 450 , 462 , 466 Springtime for Hitler (Brooks), 589 at Princeton conference, 3 , 624 – 625 Stalag 17 (Bevan and Trzcinski), 251 best self concept and, 462 Stalin, Joseph/Stalinist regime, 131 , fi eld of criticism expanded by, 461 – 462 209 – 210 , 232 , 356 , 449 , 490 on the Holocaust, 464 Stark, Irwin, 476 – 477 , 480 I, Etcetera, 152 – 153 Statue of Liberty In America, 152 – 153 in “ Bamigdal,” 285 intellectual expansiveness of, 462 – 463 in Call It Sleep, 9 9, 3 8 1– 3 8 3

723

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Statue of Liberty (cont.) A Streetcar Named Desire (opera), 587 – 588 in In the Image, 391 Streisand, Barbra Lazarus and, 8 , 35 – 36 , 175 – 176 , 285 , Classical Barbra, 590 364 , 535 classical music preferences of, 590 Shimon Ginzburg and, 285 Funny Girl, 267 , 269 , 550 Stavans, Ilan, 481 Glenn Gould and, 590 Steadfast (Koblitz and Warshawsky), Jewishness of, 550 247 – 248 For Pete’s Sake, 270 Steff ens, Lincoln, 452 Sondheim and, 590 Steig, William, 574 success of, 590 Stein, Gertrude, 184 – 185 , 507 – 508 Yentl , 259 , 267 – 272 Steinbeck, John, 592 Sturm, James, 578 – 580 Steinberg, Saul Stuyvesant, Peter, 1 America as viewed by, 594 Styles of Radical Will audience reaction to, 593 (Sontag), 462 – 464 biographical sketch of, 594 The Substance of Fire (Baitz), 254 – 255 displacement/disorientation themes “Suck My Treyf Gender: A Queer, in, 594 Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Occupation as New Yorker cartoonist, 574 Purim Cabaret.” (Purimspil on the nobility of art, 597 performance), 562 styles of, 593 – 594 “Sukkot” (Reznikoff ), 184 “View of the World from Ninth “Summoned to the Feast” (Nessa Avenue,” 595 Rapaport), 481 Steinem, Gloria, 314 “The Sun of Israel” Steiner, George, 489 , 493 – 494 (Hyneman), 172 – 173 “The Steins Collect” (art exhibit), 184 Sundance Film Festival, 272 Steps bahorim shehorim (Tap Dancing Sunday’s Silence (Nahai), 338 Through Black Holes) Sundquist, Eric, 510 – 512 , 514 , 516 (Whitehall-Bashan), 293 – 294 The Sunshine Boys (Neil Simon), 238 – 239 , Stern, David, 472 – 473 , 483 , 507 – 508 252 – 253 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 108 Super Sad True Love Story (Shteyngart), 510 Stokes, Rosa Pastor, 497 Superman, 575 Stollman, Aryeh Lev, 356 , 358 – 360 , 373 – 374 Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Stonewall rebellion, 550 – 551 Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Storahtelling: Jewish Ritual Theater, 561 Justice, and the Jewish-American Way “The Story of My Dovecote” (Isaac (Brod), 577 Babel), 479 the surreal, 146 – 147 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 228 “The Surveyor” (Henry Roth), 479 – 480 A Strange and Separate People (Maran), Survival at Auschwitz, 360 552 – 553 Sutherland, John, 439 A Stranger Among Us (fi lm), 272 “Swanee” (Gershwin), 586 – 587 “The Stranger and the Victim: The Two Sweatshop Poets, 203 Stereotypes of American Fiction” Sweeney Todd (Broadway (Howe), 130 – 133 musical), 589 – 590 Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Syrkin, Marie, 367 Post-Holocaust America (Sundquist), Syrkin, Nachman, 367 510 – 512 , 514 , 516 Szold, Henrietta, 282 , 365 Stravinsky, Igor, 588 The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz), Tabachnik, Stephen E., 579 – 580 158 , 349 Tablet (Jewish online magazine), 517 , 633

724

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Tageblatt (Yiddish newspaper), 398 “ Tfi lat isha kushit ” [Negress’s prayer] Tagebukh fun an elender meydl oder der kamf (Moshe ben Meir), 507 gegn fraye libe [Diary of a lonely Thalberg, Irving, 587 – 588 girl, or the battle against free love] theater. See Jewish American drama; (Karpilove), 403 Yiddish American theater Taichman, Rebecca, 558 A Theft (Bellow), 144 Talmud Yanqi (Yankee Talmud) These Your Children (Jewish literary (Rosenzweig), 282 anthology) (Ribalow, ed.), 474 – 475 Target Margin Theater (New York), 240 Third Solitudes (Greenstein), 432 – 433 “ Tarshishah” (To Tarshish) (Halkin), 285 This, Too, Shall Pass (Appell), 249 – 250 “ Tashlikh in Central Park” (Tashrak), 398 This Land, These People (Jewish literary Tashrak (Israel Yosef Zevin), 398 anthology) (Ribalow, ed.), 474 – 475 “The Task of the Translator” (Benjamin), This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 4 9 2– 4 9 4 (Borowski), 349 “The Teaching of Modern Literature” Thomas, Augustus, 244 – 245 (Trilling), 459 Thomas, Michael Tilson, 239 – 240 , 586 – 587 Téboul, Victor, 444 Thomashefsky (Thomashevsky), “Tefi llah (Prayer)” (Piercy), 544 Bessie, 240 Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (Rich), Thomashefsky (Thomashevsky), Boris, 539 – 540 226 , 233 , 239 – 240 Teller, J. L., 507 Thomson, Virgil, 586 – 587 Teller, Judy, 217 Those Were the Days (Mlotek and ten lost tribes of Israel, 64 , 68 – 69 Rosenfeld), 239 – 240 The Tenants (fi lm), 512 – 516 Three Jewish Plays (Mamet), 252 The Tenants (novel) (Malamud), 512 – 516 Three Musicians (Picasso), 591 The Tenth Man (Chayevsky adaptation), “Tía Estambolía.” (Emma Adatto 240 , 246 , 252 Schlesinger), 303 – 305 Di tentserin ( The Female Dancer) (Opatoshu), Till the Day I Die (Odets), 250 402 – 403 Timba Talmud (Roberto Rodríguez territoriality album), 313 in American popular culture, 422 Timeyensis, Telemachus Thomas, 266 in Canadian Jewish Tiny Furniture (fi lm), 276 writing, 419 – 422 “To America” ( Keyn amerike) (Asch), 398 in Chabon’s work, 424 – 425 To Jerusalem and Back (Bellow), 368 European colonialism and, 421 – 422 To See and See Again (Bahrampour), 331 – 332 Israel and, 362 , 370 , 416 To the Heart of the Storm (Eisner), 570 Jewish territoriality, 421 – 426 Der tog (Yiddish newspaper), 407 in Latin American Jewish literature, Tolin, Jonathan, 552 415 – 422 Tolstoy, Leo, 227 – 228 , 451 – 453 Phung and, 422 Tony Awards, 554 , 589 – 590 in Richler’s work, 424 Torch Song Trilogy (Fierstein), 254 , 551 – 552 in Rich’s work, 425 – 426 Touching Evil (Rosen), 346 in Philip Roth’s work, 423 Trachtenberg, Alan, 72 in Rozenmacher’s work, 426 “Traduire le Montreal Yiddish/New Zionism, 362 , 422 Readings of Yiddish Montreal” See also nature and landscape (Canadian conference), 443 Terry, Hilda, 574 translation Tevye the Dairyman (Sholem Aleichem), 93 , in anthologies, 496 – 497 231 – 232 , 235 Antin as translator, 498 textuality, 55 , 186 , 356 – 357 of Asch’s works, 496

725

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translation (cont.) on American society, 460 audiences of, 492 – 493 , 495 Americanness and, 460 Bellow as translator, 495 Arnold and, 449 – 450 , 457 , 459 – 461 , 466 Walter Benjamin on, 492 – 493 in Breakthrough, 4 7 7– 4 7 8 of children’s books into Yiddish, 492 Dewey and, 457 – 458 as cultural defi ance, 491 education/teaching experience of, cultural loss and, 490 – 491 , 495 – 496 456 – 457 of “ El khanun,” 4 9 4– 4 9 5 “Under Forty”, 461 ethnic assertiveness and, 493 – 495 Freud and, 457 – 458 , 460 , 466 from Hebrew, 80n9 , 492 , 499 Henry James and, 466 of God of Vengeance, 558 in the individual vs. society, 458 of Hebrew vs. Yiddish, 492 “Isaac Babel,” 461 the Holocaust and, 491 Judaism and, 461 , 465 – 466 Irving Howe as translator, 494 – 495 Keats and, 457 into Hebrew, 11 , 375 , 506 – 507 The Liberal Imagination, 449 – 450 , 456 increased focus on, 493 – 494 Matthew Arnold, 457 , 459 Lazarus as translator, 498 “The Other Margaret,” 505 , 511 – 512 markets for, 636 Partisan Review and, 456 overview, 488 – 499 pragmatism of, 457 Ozick on, 489 – 491 Rahv and, 457 of Morris Rosenfeld’s works, 497 “Reality in America,” 457 the Septuagint and, 489 – 490 “The Situation of the American I. B. Singer and, 495 Intellectual at the Present Time,” 460 transgression and aggression in, 490 “The Teaching of Modern Wiener as translator, 496 – 497 Literature,” 459 from Yiddish, 236 , 475 , 488 – 492 , on thinking, 458 4 9 6– 4 9 7 translation commentary by, 493 – 494 into Yiddish, 48 , 71 , 206 , 228 , 238 , William James and, 457 488 – 489 , 492 , 536 , 557 – 558 , 607 “Wordsworth and the Rabbis,” 461 of Yiddish American poetry, 495 Triplets (Linder), 247 – 248 the Yiddish literary canon and, 498 – 499 Trousers (Finn), 254 of Yiddish vs. Hebrew, 490 , 492 Truman administration, 268 transnationalism, 77 Trumbo, Dalton, 272 traumatic realism, 360 Trust (Ozick), 125 – 126 A Traveling Jewish Theater, 556 – 557 Trzcinski, Edmund, 251 The Treasure (David Pinski), 246 Tsabari, Ayelet, 445 A Treasury of American Jewish Stories Dos tsebrokhene fi dele ( The Broken Fiddle) (anthology) (Ribalow, ed.), 474 – 477 (Thomashevsky), 233 A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry (anthology) “ Di tsirkus dame ” (The Circus Lady) (Howe and Greenberg, eds.), 541 – 542 (Dropkin), 536 – 537 A Treasury of Yiddish Stories (anthology) “ Tsu di shvartse froyen ” (To the black (Howe and Greenberg, eds.), 479 – 480 , women) (Nevadovska), 507 541 – 542 “ Tsu dir – tsu mir ” (“To You – To Me”) Tree of Codes (art work) (Foer), 348 – 349 , 351 (Leyeles), 219 Tregebov, Rhea, 499 Di tsukunft (Yiddish literary journal), Treisman, Deborah, 629 – 630 213 , 454 Treuer, David, 72 , 634 “ Tsvishn indianer ” (“Among Indians”) tribalcentric vs. cosmopolitan approaches, (Noah), 71 74 – 7 5, 7 7– 7 8 Tucker, Ken, 571 – 573 Trilling, Lionel Tucker, Sophie, 270

726

Index

“The Tumblers” (Nathan Englander), 360 Upwardly Mobile Home (Split Britches play), Turgenev, Ivan, 451 – 453 557 – 558 Turn Hall (New York theater), 225 Uris, Leon, 126 , 343 , 367 – 368 Tussman, Malka Heifetz, 218 “ Utt-a-zay (The Tailor’s Song)” (Ram), Twain, Mark, 172 , 365 608 – 609 Twersky, Yohanan, 288 , 292 The Twilight of the Golds (Tolin), 552 Vagabond Stars (Finkel), 239 – 240 2.5 Minute Ride (Kron), 557 Valland, Rose, 627 The Valley of Jehosaphat” (Hyneman), Uganda proposal, 422 172 – 173 Uhry, Alfred Vapnyar, Lara Atlanta Trilogy, 253 – 254 , 514 anthologized, 481 Driving Miss Daisy, 2 5 3, 5 1 4 and exile in New York, 387 The Last Night of Ballyhoo, 253 – 254 justice themes of, 384 Parade , 2 5 3– 2 5 4 Memoirs of a Muse, 630 – 631 Ulinich, Anya, 444 , 630 “The Mistress,” 385 “Un ultimo adio a mi sivdad natala” [A New York City of, 385 Last Farewell to My Hometown] in The New Yorker, 6 2 9 (Satula), 299 as Russian émigré, 444 Ultra-Orthodox Judaism La Vara (Ladino newspaper), 299 – 301 , 309 authors’ attitudes toward, 634 Vartn af Godo (Shane Baker adaptation), 238 in The Chosen, 368 Vaynshteyn, Berish, 507 in comic books and graphic novels, Velez, Abraham, 312 579 , 635 ( Ven a meydl libt [ When a Girl Falls in Love]) in “Eli, the Fanatic,” 477 (Zolatarevsky), 233 literary market conditions and, 374 – 375 “ Ven poyln iz gefaln” (Opatoshu), 406 – 407 in Lovingkindness, 370 “Venus of the Louvre” (Lazarus), 535 – 536 in Master of the Return, 370 Venuti, Lawrence, 493 in recent Jewish literature, 373 The Victim (Bellow), 137 , 348 , 495 – 496 See also Israel in the Jewish American Victor, Victor, 249 imagination; Orthodox Judaism La Vida A Plazos ( The Fragmented Ulysses in Nighttown (Off -Broadway Life of Don Jacobo Lerner) (Isaac play), 589 Goldenbarg), 66 – 67 Umesorah, Torah, 580 “ Viduyo shel kalev ” [Caleb’s confession] Uncle Moses (Asch), 404 – 405 , 408 – 409 (Avinoam), 507 Uncle Moses (fi lm), 235 “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” Uncle Willie (Berns and Elman), 242 (Steinberg), 595 “Under Forty” symposium, 498 Vigvamim shotekim (Silent Wigwams) “Under Forty” (Trilling), 461 (Efros), 290 “Under the Dome” (Waldo Frank), 476 – 477 Vinchevsky, Morris, 233 “An Unwelcome Guest” (Papernick), Vizenor, Gerald, 72 371 – 372 Vogel, Paula, 558 The Unwritten Chapter (Shipman and The Volcano Lover (Sontag), 152 – 153 Victor), 249 Unzer Teater (Yiddish theater), 234 Waddington, Miriam, 440 , 444 Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 238 Culture, and Values Shaped the Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 250 Comic Book Superhero (Simcha Wald, Alan, 62 – 63 Weinstein), 577 Walden, Daniel, 474 Updike, John, 592 – 593 Waldman, JT, 578

727

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Wales Padlock law, 549 West, Nathanael (Nathan Weinstein), 62 , A Walk on the Moon (fi lm), 272 71 – 72 , 262 , 507 – 508 Walker, Rebecca, 634 West Side (Demblin), 408 – 409 Walker in the City (Kazin), 53 – 54 , 390 – 391 West Side Story (Broadway musical and The Wall (Hersey), 126 , 343 fi lm), 587 , 589 – 590 The Wall (Lampell), 244 – 245 What We Talk about When We Talk about Wallant, Edward Lewis, 134 – 135 Anne Frank (Nathan Englander), 346 , Wallenrod, Reuven, 289 , 292 , 507 371 – 372 Walt, Abraham. See Liessin, Abraham “What’s Happening in America” Waltz in Goose-Step (Garrett), 250 (Sontag), 463 The Wanting (Lavigne), 371 – 372 When a Girl Falls in Love ( Ven a meydl libt) Warner, Michael, 555 (Zolatarevsky), 233 Warner brothers (Frank, Harry, and Sam When She Was Good (Philip Roth), 148 – 149 Warner), 263 – 264 “When Skeptics Die” (Yael Goldstein), 389 Warrior, Robert, 74 – 75 Where Is My Child (fi lm), 235 Warsaw Yiddish State Theatre, 238 Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 585 – 586 Warshawsky, Samuel, 247 – 248 Where’s Poppa? (fi lm), 267 Warshow, Robert, 592 Wherever You Go (Leegant), 373 – 374 Washington, George, 1 , 22 – 23 , 27 Whitehill-Bashan, Robert, 293 – 294 Wasserman, Bryna, 238 – 239 Whitfi eld, Stephen J., xv , 14 , 572 , 584 – 597 Wasserman, Dale, 588 Whitlock, Gillian, 331 – 332 Wasserstein, Wendy, 3 , 253 , 551 Whitman, Ruth, 493 – 494 Watzman, Haim, 294 Whitman, Walt Waxman, Tobaron, 560 Antin and, 52 The Way We Were (fi lm), 272 Emerson on, 585 “We Were Talking Jewish: Art Leaves of Grass, 527 Spiegelman’s Maus as ‘Holocaust’ Menken and, 527 , 531 – 532 Production” (Rothberg), 573 as national poet, 33 We Will Never Die (Hecht), 251 – 252 Rich and, 542 “We Will Never Die” (pageant theme), 367 “Song of Myself,” 531 – 532 Weaver, Jace, 62 Yiddish poets and, 211 – 212 Weaver, Lois, 557 – 558 Whoopee (fi lm), 71 The Wedding Contract (Kishon), 238 – 239 “Why I Choose to be a Jew” (Paul Wedding Song (Goldin), 331 – 332 , 334 Goodman), 477 Weil, Simone, 152 Wiener, Leo, 204 , 496 – 499 Weill, Kurt, 251 – 252 Wieseltier, Leon, 186 – 187 Weingrad, Michael, xv , 14 , 281 – 296 Wiesner, Al, 580 Weinreich, Uriel, 606 Wilder, Billy, 263 , 597 Weinstein, B., 217 Wilder, Gene, 71 , 589 Weinstein, Nathan. See West, Nathanael Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 47 Weinstein, Simcha, 577 William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Weisenfreund, Muni, 236 (Atlanta), 576 Weissman, Gary, 346 Williams, C.K., 3 Welcome Stranger (Hoff man and Shipman), Williams, Hank, 595 248 – 250 Williams, John A., 508 Welcome to Heavenly Heights (Risa Williams, Juliet, 332 Miller), 373 Williams, Roger, 23 Wellman, Rita, 244 Williams, Tennessee, 549 Werfel, Franz, 250 – 252 Wilson, Adam, 637 West, Mae, 549 Wilson, Jonathan, 637

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Wimmen’s Comix, 576 , 579 World of Our Fathers (Irving Howe), 267 Winslow, Thyra Samter, 476 – 477 The World of Sholem Aleichem (Broadway Winters, Emmanuel, 476 play), 589 Winthrop, John, 26 The World to Come (Horn), 352 , 356 – 357 , 389 , Wirth-Nesher, Hana, 1 – 18 , 41 – 61 391 , 481 , 626 Wise, Isaac Mayer The World Without You (Henkin), 373 – 374 “America,” 30 World Zionist Congress (1897), 30 , 364 America as viewed by, 30 , 32 – 33 , Wouk, Herman, 126 , 368 , 634 3 5– 3 8 Wounded Knee (massacre site), 426 biographical sketch of, 29 WOW Café (New York non-commercial Christian supercessionism and, 32 – 33 theater space), 555 , 557 The Combat of the People; or, Hillel and “Writers from the Other Europe” Herod, 31 project, 349 “The Convert,” 30 – 32 “Writing About Jews” (Philip Roth), 128 – 129 The First of the Maccabees, 31 “Writing American Fiction” (Philip as foundational fi gure, 21 – 22 Roth), 127 The Fourth of July and, 32 Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Israel and, 29 , 32 – 33 Stories (anthology) (Solotareff and The Israelite founded by, 31 – 32 , 527 Rapaport), 480 – 481 “the Jewish American novelist” as “Writing Posthistorically: Krazy Kat, Maus, synonym for, 31 and the Contemporary Fiction vs. Noah, 29 – 30 Cartoon” (Orvell), 571 – 572 Reform Judaism and, 29 , 33 , 36 The Wrong Way Light Bulb writing in English, 22 (Spigelgass), 252 vs. Zionism, 30 Wiseman, Adele The X-Men (Kirby), 577 – 578 , 592 – 593 Canadian identifi cation of, 444 – 445 Crackpot , 440 Yablokoff , Herman, 236 isolation of, 434 Yankee Talmud ( Talmud Yanqi) Margaret Laurence and, 441 (Rosenzweig), 282 The Sacrifi ce, 440 Yankele (play), 270 writing in English, 434 , 440 – 441 Yankl Boyle (Kobrin), 233 Wisse, Ruth R., 12 , 144 , 151 , 348 , 624 Yassur, Moshe, 237 Wissenschaft des Judentums, 3 4, 74 Yeats, William Butler, 612 Witz (Joshua Cohen), 628 Yehoash (Solomon Blumgarten), 205 Wolf, Aaron, 294 Yehoshua, A. B., 623 Wolf, Emma, 478 , 635 Yehuda (Meyer Levin), 367 Wolf, Stacey, 550 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto Wolfe, Thomas, 596 – 597 (Cahan), 50 – 51 Wolff , Tobias, 634 Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and other Wolosky, Shira, xv – xvi , 13 , 164 – 180 , 535 stories of the New York Ghetto (Cahan), women in Jewish-American literature. See 3 8 0– 3 8 1 gender poetics; specifi c women writers Yentl (fi lm), 259 , 267 – 272 Wood, Michael, xvi , 13 , 144 – 160 Yerushalmi, Yosef, 24 “ Woodfern farm” (Leyeles), 220 – 221 Yeshiva University Museum, 579 “Wordsworth and the Rabbis” Yezierska, Anzia (Trilling), 461 Henry Roth and, 507 – 508 Workers’ Theater Group (Arbeter teater assimilation themes and, 327 farband) (ARTEF), 234 , 236 , 238 Bread Givers, 31 , 92 – 94 , 415 “The World and the Jug,” 513 excluded from anthologies, 478

729

Index

Yezierska, Anzia (cont.) Yiddish Art Theater, 233 – 234 in A Treasury of American Jewish Stories, Yiddish Children’s theater, 239 4 7 6– 4 7 7 Yiddish comedy, 601 – 603 Yiddish language and, 498 The Yiddish Cowboy ( Der Yidisher Cowboy) Yiddish American poetry (Raboy), 47 American Yiddish press and, 212 – 213 Yiddish Ensemble Art Theatre, 234 in anthologies, 495 Yiddish Ensemble Theatre, 238 Di yunge and, 205 Yiddish fi lm industry, 235 , 263 factors in the development of, 202 – 203 Yiddish language gender poetics in, 539 in “To America,” 398 the golden age of, 214 – 221 American urban conditions and, 284 – 285 Henry Roth and, 510 among early immigrants, 396 – 397 the Holocaust and, 203 – 204 , 209 – 210 , in Antin’s work, 89 214 , 220 Asch and, 398 , 404 – 405 in The Jewish Anthology, 4 7 2 assimilation and, 490 marketing problems of, 213 Bellow and, 498 modernism in, 208 – 210 , 219 , 287 – 288 in Bread Givers, 92 old and new worlds bridged by, 211 Cahan and, 498 overview, 202 – 221 in Call It Sleep, 55 – 56 , 100 readership in decline, 220 Canadian Jewish immigrants speaking, repentance trend in, 209 – 210 432 – 434 resilience of, 221 in Canadian Jewish writing, 443 socialism and, 203 Chabon and, 498 Walt Whitman and, 211 – 212 in The Chosen People, 109 – 110 vs. Yiddish prose and fi ction, 203 cultural freedom of expression in, 397 Yiddish American press, 212 – 213 disappearing milieu of, 479 – 480 , 491 Yiddish American theater Dropkin writing in, 536 , 539 1882–1890, 224 – 227 in “Envy; or Yiddish in America,” 125 – 126 1891–1909, 227 – 230 in Forverts, 453 – 454 1909–1945, 230 – 236 the Great Migration and, 9 1946 to the present, 236 – 241 in Haunch, Paunch and Jowl: An actors in, 226 Anonymous Autobiography, 9 4– 9 5 business aspects of, 229 Horn and, 498 character of, in America, 224 Henry James on, 396 , 497 decline of, 235 – 236 , 242 , 407 in Jews without Money, 97 English translations in, 240 Kids and Yiddish, 238 – 239 freedom of expression in, 225 in Lamed Shapiro’s work, 48 Hollywood and, 263 Leo Wiener’s treatment of, 204 lesbian themes in, 549 in Luria’s work, 403 – 404 maturity of, 230 – 231 in mainstream Jewish literature, 124 overview, 224 – 241 in The Material World, 558 – 559 popular vs. literary productions, 229 in New York Jewish writing, 380 – 381 , 384 Purim holiday and, 224 , 231 in Old, Jewish, and Queer, 556 show business themes in, 248 Paley and, 498 Stanislavski techniques in, 230 in Queer Jewish Wedding, 560 star system in, 229 in Raboy’s work, 46 – 48 Uncle Moses and, 408 renewed interest in, 494 Yiddish language in, 226 – 230 , 236 – 237 in Philip Roth’s work, 42 – 43 Zionism in, 238 in secular Jewish poetry, 187 – 189 See also Jewish American drama secularity in, 187 – 189

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in Sholem Aleichem’s work, 44 , 46 , 50 Yidishtaytshn (Glatstein), 219 I. B. Singer and, 44 , 124 – 125 Yinglish entertainment. See Katz, ydishkayt and, 410 Mickey Yezierska and, 498 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in Yiddish American theater, 226 – 230 , 240 – 241 , 407 236 – 237 “Yom Kippur 1984” (Rich), 542 – 543 in Yidishtaytshn, 219 Yona hanovi, oder di rayze durkh vaser un See also Jewish American drama; Jewish fayer (The Prophet Jonah; or, The Journey humor in America; translation through Water and Fire) (Hurwitz), The Yiddish Light Opera Company of 225 – 226 Long Island, 239 “Yonkl the Cowboy Jew” (Noah), 71 Yiddish literature (general) Yoon, Jin-me, 413 – 414 anthologies of, 479 , 497 – 499 Yoshe Kalb (dramatization from I. J. blacks as subjects in, 506 – 507 Singer), 234 in Canada, 434 – 438 , 443 Yoshke the Musician ( Yoshke musikant) Christianity and, 396 – 397 (Dymow), 233 vs. Hebrew literature, 291 Yosl Rakover redt tsu got ( Yosl Rakover Speaks millennial emergence of, 636 to God) (Kolitz), 237 – 238 modernism and, 287 Young Judaea movement (Canadian Motl, The Cantor’s Son and, 44 – 46 Zionist movement), 439 New York and, 384 , 407 , 409 – 410 The Young Lions (Shaw), 126 opposing conceptions of, 401 Youngman, Henny, 185 poetry as central to, 202 – 203 Your Native Land, Your Life (Rich), 370 , renewed interest in, 513 542 – 543 Lamed Shapiro and, 406 Your Show Of Shows (television series), in translation, 495 – 499 252 – 253 two Jews talking in, 392 YouTube, 275 in The World to Come, 626 Yudis (Karpilove), 403 See also Inzikh (Yiddish poets group); Jewish American drama; Motl, The Zachariah (prophet), 23 Cantor’s Son; Yiddish American Zagat, Samuel, 578 theater Zahav, Ari-Ibn, Shaylok un zayn tokhter Yiddish National Theater, 238 ( Shylock’s Daughter), 234 The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Chabon), 375 , Zakim, Eric, 416 424 – 425 , 635 Zakrzewski, Paul, 481 , 622 Yiddish press, 48 , 50 , 71 , 212 – 213 , 282 , 578 Zangwill, Israel, 8 , 243 – 244 Yiddish prose. See New York in American “ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: Yiddish prose; Yiddish literature The Golden Age of Comic Books, (general) 1938–1950” (exhibition), 576 Yiddish South of the Border “Zara” (Hyneman), 171 (Astro, ed.), 499 Zeek : A Jewish Journal of Thought and Yiddish Theater Society, 234 Culture, 633 Dos yidishe harts ( The Jewish Heart ) Zeifert, Moshe, 233 (Lateiner), 229 Zellnik, David, 552 – 553 Yidishe un slavishe motivn (Leyb), 215 Zevin, Israel Yosef (Tashrak), 398 Der Yidisher Cowboy ( The Yiddish Cowboy) Zhitlowsky, Chaim, 188 (Raboy), 47 Zierler, Wendy I., xvi , 14 , 470 – 484 yidishkayt / yiddishkayt, 188 , 481 , 558 – 559 Zimmerman, Robert. See Dylan, Bob See also New York in American Der zinger fun zayn troyer ( The Singer of His Yiddish prose Sorrow) (Dymow), 233

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Zion Hebraism and, 281 – 282 , 288 Shimon Ginzburg and, 286 in Herr Goldenbarg, 4 7 in “Building Blocks,” 387 – 388 Jewish American drama and, 251 – 252 Christianity and, 365 – 366 Jewish identity in literature and, 72 destruction of, 387 – 388 Jewish territoriality and, 362 , 422 Felder vs., 557 Jews in the U. S. supporting, 363 , 366 Allen Grossman and, 195 – 196 of A. M. Klein, 439 Lazarus and, 180 , 365 – 366 Labor Zionism, 367 modern attitudes toward, 362 – 363 , Lazarus and, 36 – 37 , 164 , 177 , 364 – 366 365 – 367 , 376 Meyer Levin and, 367 Moise and, 168 – 169 , 180 nature, literature and, 416 New York as, 387 in Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, Noah and, 28 372 – 373 in Operation Shylock, 369 Nyburg and, 112 – 114 symbolic value of, 362 – 363 Orthodox Judaism and, 363 vs. U. S. as the promised land, 289 , 363 in Out of Sight, 556 – 557 Zionism of Maurice Samuel, 472 in “America! America!,” 116 socialism vs., 363 American wilderness and, 414 La Vara and, 300 among Canadian Jewish immigrants, Wise vs., 30 432 – 433 in Yiddish American theater, 238 anti-Zionism in Kaaterskill Falls, 158 in The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, 375 assimilation vs., 363 Young Judaea movement and, 439 authors’ attitudes toward, 363 – 364 Zippe, Yaakov, 443 authors moving away from, 372 Zise khaloymes ( Sweet Dreams) (Reissa), 237 in Ben-Ami, 226 Zisquit, Linda, 374 as central in Jewish communal thinking, Zolatarevsky, Isadore, 233 363 – 364 Zonana, Joyce, 322 , 324 , 326 , 329 – 330 in The Chosen, 137 Zukofsky, Louis, 193 in The Chosen People, 109 Zukor, Adolph, 597 in The Counterlife, 347 The Zulu and the Zaida (da Silva and Leon), diasporism and, 347 – 348 253 – 254 George Eliot and, 114 , 365 Zunser, Eliakim, 497 of Gadol, 298 Z .ychlin 8sky, Rajzel, 210

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