ABSTRACT
Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.
This volume:
- examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
- includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen
- contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature
- provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers.
Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |37 pages
Introductory Surveys
entry |8 pages
American-Jewish Literature
entry |7 pages
British-Jewish Literature
entry |7 pages
Hebrew Literature in the 20th Century
entry |7 pages
Holocaust Writing
entry |11 pages
Yiddish Writing in the 20th Century
part |1175 pages
Writers
letter 40A|70 pages
entry |4 pages
Abish, Walter
entry |6 pages
Abse, Dannie
entry |4 pages
Agnon, S.Y.
entry |4 pages
Aini, Lea
entry |4 pages
Allen, Woody
entry |5 pages
Almog, Ruth
entry |3 pages
Aloni, Nissim
entry |4 pages
Alterman, Natan
entry |4 pages
Alvarez, A.
entry |6 pages
Amichai, Yehuda
entry |3 pages
Amir, Eli
entry |4 pages
An-ski
entry |4 pages
Appelfeld, Aharon
entry |4 pages
Apple, Max
entry |5 pages
Asch, Sholem
entry |5 pages
Aub, Max
entry |4 pages
Ausländer, Rose
entry |4 pages
Auster, Paul
entry |4 pages
Avidan, David
entry |4 pages
Ayalon, Leah
letter |86 pages
B
entry |5 pages
Babel', Isaak Emmanuilovich
entry |4 pages
Bagritskii, Eduard
entry |5 pages
Ballas, Shimon
entry |3 pages
Barbash, Benny
entry |3 pages
Baron, (Joseph) Alexander
entry |4 pages
Baron, Dvora
entry |4 pages
Bartov, Hanokh
entry |4 pages
Bassani, Giorgio
entry |4 pages
Becker, Jurek
entry |4 pages
Bejerano, Maya
entry |4 pages
Bellow, Saul
entry |4 pages
Ben-Ner, Yitzhak
entry |3 pages
Ben-Yehuda, Netiva
entry |4 pages
Berdyczewski, Micha Yosef (later Bin-Gorion)
entry |4 pages
Bergelson, Dovid
entry |4 pages
Berkoff, Steven
entry |4 pages
Bermant, Chaim
entry |5 pages
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman
entry |3 pages
Biller, Maxim
entry |4 pages
Bloch, Jean-Richard
entry |3 pages
Brenner, Yosef Hayyim
entry |4 pages
Broch, Hermann
entry |6 pages
Brod, Max
entry |4 pages
Brodkey, Harold
entry |5 pages
Brodsky, Joseph
entry |3 pages
Broner, E.M.
entry |3 pages
Brookner, Anita
letter |34 pages
C
entry |4 pages
Cahan, Abraham
entry |1 pages
Canetti, Elias
entry |6 pages
Canetti, Veza
entry |6 pages
Carmi, T.
entry |4 pages
Castel-Bloom, Orly
entry |3 pages
Celan, Paul
entry |7 pages
Cixous, Hélène
entry |3 pages
Clouts, Sydney
entry |3 pages
Cohen, Albert
entry |4 pages
Cohen, Leonard
letter |23 pages
D
entry |3 pages
Der Nister
entry |6 pages
Döblin, Alfred
entry |4 pages
Doctorow, E.L.
entry |5 pages
Dorfman, Ariel
entry |3 pages
Dujovne Ortiz, Alicia
entry |3 pages
Durlacher, G.L.
entry |4 pages
Dworkin, Andrea
letter 254E|16 pages
entry |4 pages
Elkin, Stanley
entry |4 pages
Epstein, Leslie
entry |4 pages
Erenburg, Il'ia
entry |4 pages
Esther
entry |4 pages
Ezekiel, Nissim
letter |41 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Fainlight, Ruth
entry |3 pages
Farhi, Moris (Musa)
entry |5 pages
Federman, Raymond
entry |4 pages
Fefer, Itsik
entry |4 pages
Feinstein, Elaine
entry |5 pages
Ferber, Edna
entry |5 pages
Feuchtwanger, Lion
entry |4 pages
Fiedler, Leslie A.
entry |3 pages
Fierstein, Harvey
entry |4 pages
Fink, Ida
entry |4 pages
Fleg, Edmond
entry |4 pages
Fried, Erich
entry |4 pages
Friedman, Bruce Jay
letter |91 pages
G
entry |4 pages
Gary, Romain
entry |3 pages
Gebirtig, Mordkhe
entry |4 pages
Gerchunoff, Alberto
entry |3 pages
Gerez, Jozef Habib
entry |3 pages
Gershon, Karen
entry |3 pages
Gilboa, Amir
entry |5 pages
Ginsberg, Allen
entry |5 pages
Ginzburg, Natalia
entry |4 pages
Glants-Leyeles, Arn (Aaron Glanz-Leyeles)
entry |4 pages
Glantz, Margo
entry |4 pages
Glatshteyn, Yankev (Jacob Glatstein)
entry |5 pages
Glickman, Nora
entry |4 pages
Gnessin, Uri Nissan
entry |4 pages
Goldberg, Leah
entry |4 pages
Goldemberg, Isaac
entry |4 pages
Goldfaden, Avrom
entry |5 pages
Golding, Louis
entry |5 pages
Goloboff, Gerardo Mario
entry |3 pages
Goodman, Allegra
entry |4 pages
Gordimer, Nadine
entry |3 pages
Gordin, Yankev
entry |4 pages
Grade, Chaim
entry |4 pages
Greenberg, Uri Zvi (“Tur Malka”)
entry |4 pages
Grossman, David
entry |4 pages
Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich
entry |3 pages
Gur, Batya
entry |5 pages
Gurevitch, Zali
entry |3 pages
Guri, Haim
letter |59 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Halkin, Shmuel
entry |4 pages
Halpern, Moyshe-Leyb
entry |3 pages
Halter, Marek
entry |4 pages
Hareven, Shulamith (“Tal Yaari”)
entry |5 pages
Harwood, Ronald
entry |3 pages
Hazaz, Hayim (“H. Zevi”)
entry |4 pages
Heijermans, Herman
entry |5 pages
Heller, Joseph
entry |6 pages
Hellman, Lillian
entry |4 pages
Hendel, Yehudit
entry |5 pages
Herzberg, Judith
entry |4 pages
Herzl, Theodor
entry |5 pages
Heym, Stefan
entry |4 pages
Hilsenrath, Edgar
entry |4 pages
Hirshbein, Perets
entry |4 pages
Hoffman, Yoel
entry |5 pages
Hollander, John
letter |5 pages
I
entry |5 pages
Ionesco, Eugène
letter |26 pages
J
entry |5 pages
Jabès, Edmond
entry |6 pages
Jacob, Max
entry |4 pages
Jacobson, Dan
entry |4 pages
Jacobson, Howard
entry |4 pages
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
entry |4 pages
Jong, Erica
entry |4 pages
Josipovici, Gabriel
letter |84 pages
K
entry |4 pages
Ka-Tzetnik 135633
entry |6 pages
Kafka, Franz
entry |3 pages
Kahana-Carmon, Amalia
entry |3 pages
Kaniuk, Yoram
entry |4 pages
Karpinovich, Avrom
entry |3 pages
Katz, Menke
entry |3 pages
Katz, Steve
entry |3 pages
Katzir, Yehudit (Judith)
entry |3 pages
Kenaz, Yehoshua
entry |3 pages
Kertész, Imre
entry |4 pages
Kiš, Danilo
entry |4 pages
Kisch, Egon Erwin
entry |4 pages
Kishon, Ephraim
entry |5 pages
Klein, A.M.
entry |5 pages
Klima, Ivan
entry |5 pages
Koestler, Arthur
entry |3 pages
Kolmar, Gertrud
entry |5 pages
Kops, Bernard
entry |4 pages
Korczak, Janusz
entry |4 pages
Kosinski, Jerzy
entry |4 pages
Kovner, Abba
entry |5 pages
Kraus, Karl
entry |3 pages
Kreitman, Esther
entry |4 pages
Kulbak, Moyshe
entry |4 pages
Kunitz, Stanley
entry |4 pages
Kushner, Tony
letter |59 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Langer, Jiří
entry |4 pages
Lapid, Shulamit
entry |5 pages
Lasker-Schüler, Else
entry |6 pages
Layton, Irving
entry |4 pages
Leśmian, Boleslaw
entry |4 pages
Levi, Carlo
entry |5 pages
Levi, Primo
entry |5 pages
Levin, Hanoch
entry |5 pages
Leyvik, H.
entry |4 pages
Liberman, Serge
entry |4 pages
Liebrecht, Savyon
entry |4 pages
Lind, Jakov
entry |5 pages
Lispector, Clarice
entry |4 pages
Litvinoff, Emanuel
entry |4 pages
Louvish, Simon
entry |5 pages
Lunel, Armand
entry |4 pages
Lustig, Arnošt
letter |97 pages
M
entry |5 pages
Mailer, Norman
entry |4 pages
Malamud, Bernard
entry |6 pages
Mamet, David
entry |5 pages
Mandel'shtam, Osip
entry |4 pages
Manger, Itsik
entry |4 pages
Mani Leyb (Leib)
entry |5 pages
Mankowitz, Wolf
entry |5 pages
Margolin, Anna
entry |3 pages
Markfield, Wallace
entry |4 pages
Markish, Perets
entry |3 pages
Matalon, Ronit
entry |5 pages
Maurois, André
entry |4 pages
Megged, Aharon
entry |4 pages
Memmi, Albert
entry |4 pages
Mendele Moykher Sforim
entry |4 pages
Michael, Sami
entry |4 pages
Michaels, Anne
entry |5 pages
Mikes, George
entry |5 pages
Miller, Arthur
entry |4 pages
Millin, Sarah Gertrude
entry |4 pages
Minco, Marga
entry |4 pages
Modiano, Patrick
entry |5 pages
Molodovski, Kadye
entry |4 pages
Morante, Elsa
entry |6 pages
Moravia, Alberto
entry |3 pages
MöRing, Marcel
entry |6 pages
Mulisch, Harry
letter |3 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Nathansen, Henri
letter 741O|21 pages
entry |3 pages
Odets, Clifford
entry |5 pages
Olsen, Tillie
entry |3 pages
Opatoshu, Joseph (Yoysef)
entry |4 pages
Oppen, George
entry |3 pages
Orpaz, Yitzhak
entry |5 pages
Oz, Amos
entry |3 pages
Ozick, Cynthia
letter |60 pages
P
entry |4 pages
Pagis, Dan
entry |4 pages
Paley, Grace
entry |5 pages
Parker, Dorothy
entry |6 pages
Pasternak, Boris
entry |5 pages
Perec, Georges
entry |4 pages
Perelman, S.J.
entry |5 pages
Perets, Yitskhok-Leyb
entry |3 pages
Perry, Lily
entry |4 pages
Perutz, Leo
entry |5 pages
Piercy, Marge
entry |4 pages
Pinski, Dovid
entry |4 pages
Pinsky, Robert
entry |5 pages
Pinter, Harold
entry |3 pages
Potok, Chaim
entry |3 pages
Preil, Gabriel Yehoshua
entry |3 pages
Pressburger, Giorgio
entry |4 pages
Proust, Marcel
letter |80 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Raab, Esther
entry |4 pages
Rachel (Bluwstein, Blaustein)
entry |3 pages
Rakosi, Carl
entry |5 pages
Raphael, Frederic
entry |4 pages
Ratosh, Yonatan
entry |4 pages
Ravikovitch, Dalia
entry |4 pages
Rawicz, Piotr
entry |3 pages
Reyzen, Avrom
entry |5 pages
Reznikoff, Charles
entry |5 pages
Rich, Adrienne
entry |5 pages
Richler, Mordecai
entry |4 pages
Riding, Laura
entry |5 pages
Rosenberg, Isaac
entry |3 pages
Rosenfarb, Chava
entry |4 pages
Rosenfeld, Isaac
entry |4 pages
Rosenfeld, Moris
entry |4 pages
Rosten, Leo
entry |4 pages
Roth, Henry
entry |5 pages
Roth, Joseph
entry |4 pages
Roth, Philip
entry |5 pages
Rothenberg, Jerome
entry |4 pages
Rubens, Bernice
entry |5 pages
Rudnicki, Adolf
entry |5 pages
Rukeyser, Muriel
letter |171 pages
S
entry |5 pages
Saba, Umberto
entry |4 pages
Sachs, Nelly
entry |4 pages
Sadeh, Pinhas
entry |4 pages
Salinger, J.D.
entry |4 pages
Samuel, Maurice
entry |5 pages
Sarraute, Nathalie
entry |4 pages
Schindel, Robert
entry |3 pages
Schneour, Zalkind-Zalmen
entry |6 pages
Schnitzler, Arthur
entry |5 pages
Schulz, Bruno
entry |4 pages
Schütz, David
entry |4 pages
Schwartz, Delmore
entry |4 pages
Schwarz-Bart, André
entry |4 pages
Schwob, Marcel
entry |5 pages
Scliar, Moacyr
entry |4 pages
Self, Will
entry |5 pages
Sendak, Maurice
entry |3 pages
Shabtai, Yaakov
entry |5 pages
Shaffer, Peter
entry |4 pages
Shaham, Nathan
entry |4 pages
Shahar, David
entry |3 pages
Shalev, Meir
entry |5 pages
Shamir, Moshe
entry |4 pages
Shapiro, Karl
entry |4 pages
Shapiro, (Levi Joshua) Lamed
entry |4 pages
Sherman, Martin
entry |4 pages
Shimoni, Yuval
entry |4 pages
Shlonsky, Avraham
entry |5 pages
Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitsh)
entry |3 pages
Shpigl, Yeshayohu (Shaye) (Isaiah Spiegel)
entry |3 pages
Shrayer-Petrov, David
entry |4 pages
Silkin, Jon
entry |5 pages
Simon, Neil
entry |3 pages
Sinclair, Clive
entry |6 pages
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
entry |5 pages
Singer, Israel Joshua
entry |3 pages
Slutskii, Boris Abramovich
entry |4 pages
Sobol, Yehoshua
entry |4 pages
Sontag, Susan
entry |5 pages
Spark, Muriel
entry |4 pages
Spiegelman, Art
entry |5 pages
Spire, André
entry |4 pages
Stavans, Ilan (Zuri Balkoff)
entry |5 pages
Stein, Gertrude
entry |4 pages
Steiner, George
entry |6 pages
Stoppard, Tom
entry |4 pages
Stryjkowski, Julian
entry |5 pages
Sukenick, Ronald
entry |5 pages
Sutzkever, Abraham
entry |4 pages
Svevo, Italo
letter |27 pages
T
entry |4 pages
Tammuz, Benjamin
entry |4 pages
Taylor, C.P.
entry |4 pages
Tchernichovski, Saul
entry |5 pages
Torberg, Friedrich
entry |4 pages
Trilling, Lionel
entry |4 pages
Tussman, Malka Heifetz
entry |5 pages
Tuwim, Julian
entry |4 pages
Tzara, Tristan
letter 1104U|3 pages
entry |3 pages
Uris, Leon
letter |9 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Viertel, Berthold
entry |3 pages
Vigée, Claude
entry |3 pages
Vogel, David
letter |56 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Wallach, Yona
entry |4 pages
Wallant, Edward Lewis
entry |6 pages
Wassermann, Jakob
entry |5 pages
Weiss, Ernst
entry |4 pages
Weissbort, Daniel
entry |5 pages
Weissenberg, Isaac Meier
entry |7 pages
Werfel, Franz
entry |4 pages
Wesker, Arnold
entry |4 pages
West, Nathanael
entry |6 pages
Wiesel, Elie
entry |4 pages
Wieseltier, Meir
entry |3 pages
Winter, Léon de
entry |3 pages
Wiseman, Adele
entry |4 pages
Woolf, Leonard Sidney
entry |4 pages
Wouk, Herman
letter 1173Y|13 pages
entry |4 pages
Yehoshua, A.B.
entry |4 pages
Yeshurun, Avot
entry |4 pages
Yezierska, Anzia
entry |4 pages
Yizhar, S.
letter |27 pages
Z
entry |4 pages
Zach, Nathan
entry |6 pages
Zangwill, Israel
entry |4 pages
Zelda
entry |5 pages
Zukofsky, Louis
entry |5 pages
Zweig, Arnold
entry |6 pages
Zweig, Stefan
entry |3 pages
Zwicky, Fay