Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.
Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.
MICHAEL HOBERMAN is a professor of English studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He is the author of several books, including New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America.
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Contents Preface Introduction. “A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us”: Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place—1-13
Chapter One. “In this vestibule of God’s holy temple”: the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862—14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910—56-98
Chapter Three. “A rare good fortune to anyone”: Joseph Leiser’s and Edna Ferber’s reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939—99-144
Chapter Four. “The longed for pastoral”: images of exurban exile in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls (1998)—145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the “topological turn” in Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002)—187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the “Wild West Bank” frontier: Jon Papernick’s The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller’s Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)—228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places—267-276
Contents Preface Introduction. “A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us”: Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place—1-13
Chapter One. “In this vestibule of God’s holy temple”: the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862—14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910—56-98
Chapter Three. “A rare good fortune to anyone”: Joseph Leiser’s and Edna Ferber’s reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939—99-144
Chapter Four. “The longed for pastoral”: images of exurban exile in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls (1998)—145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the “topological turn” in Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002)—187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the “Wild West Bank” frontier: Jon Papernick’s The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller’s Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)—228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places—267-276
Acknowledgements
Notes Index
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