Dana Mihailescu

Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930

Struggles for Recognition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comparative study of the Jewish response to identity structures in Eastern Europe and the United States from 1890 to 1930 in narratives by immigrant writers from the Pale of Settlement and Romania.

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Produktdetails

• Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781498563895
• ISBN-10: 1498563899
• Artikelnr.: 52422570

Autorenporträt

By Dana Mihailescu

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Power Fields, Struggles for Recognition, and the Birth
of Jewish American Contingent Identity 1. Preliminary Considerations 2.
Eastern European Traditions in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American
Narratives 3. American Traditions between Temptations and Traps: Towards a
Contingent Identity Part II: Jewishness, Responsibility, and Vulnerability
in Early Twentieth Century America: Writing an Ethics out of Contingency 4.
Stances of Ethical Agency out of Contingency 5. Human Socialities between
Struggles for Recognition and Ethical Responsibility Conclusion