ABSTRACT
It could be argued that it is in the massive body of work comprising modern American drama that a specific Materia Judaica may be distinguished, similar to that of medieval literature which split into Arthurian, Christian and secular love, so does the drama from Miller’s early plays through to Kushner’s epic Angels in America (first published in 1994) can be divided into distinct sections. This corpus forms into (1) preoccupations with the Holocaust – the era and the aftermath; (2) the description of duality in third-generation urban Jews in a material world; and (3) a specific mediation of a new secular Jewish attitude to identity and to modernity.
