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.

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

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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