Saul Noam Zaritt

Gebundenes Buch

Jewish American Writing and World Literature

Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody

Beschreibung

This book explores how Jewish American writers like Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley think of themselves as world writers, and the successes and failures that come with this role.

Autor

Saul Noam Zaritt is an Associate Professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He studies modern Jewish writing and the politics of translation, examining how writers move between cultures and across boundaries to reimagine the languages of Jewish experience. He has held fellowships at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Washington University in St. Louis. His scholarly work has appeared in the journals Prooftexts, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and American Literary History. He is a founding editor of In geveb, an open-access digital journal of Yiddish studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863717
• ISBN-10: 0198863713
• Artikelnr.: 59081358