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New Voices in Jewish-American Literature

The retirement of Philip Roth in 2012 signifies a definite break with the past, the silencing of one of the last living links with the Jewish generation that dominated post-war American literary culture. This does not, however, mean the end of Jewish-American literature. Recent years have shown the remarkable tenacity of Jewish-American writing: its enduring ability to initiate critical debates.

Editors: Dan O'Brien (Guest Editor), Mike Witcombe (Guest Editor)


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New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature

Dan O'Brien and Mike Witcombe

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2018 • 18

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New Voices in Jewish-American Literature

‘But Yehoshuah knew the numbers’: Reading Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers as Biblical Adaptation
‘But Yehoshuah knew the numbers’: Reading Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers as Biblical Adaptation

James M. Cochran

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 7

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Sarah Schulman’s Empathy, Ties that Bind, and the Possibilities of the Stranger
Sarah Schulman’s Empathy, Ties that Bind, and the Possibilities of the Stranger

Amy Tziporah Karp

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 9

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Michael Chabon in a Queer Time and Place
Michael Chabon in a Queer Time and Place

Michael Kalisch

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 10

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Reenacting Exodus and the Civil War: Passover and All Other Nights by Dara Horn
Reenacting Exodus and the Civil War: Passover and All Other Nights by Dara Horn

Joshua Benjamin Leavitt

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 11

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Are Head Coverings the New Black? Sheitels and the Religious-Secular Culture Wars in Twenty-first-century America and its Literature
Are Head Coverings the New Black? Sheitels and the Religious-Secular Culture Wars in Twenty-first-century America and its Literature

Karen E. H. Skinazi

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 12

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Writing Progeny: Elisa Albert and Philip Roth
Writing Progeny: Elisa Albert and Philip Roth

Aimee Pozorski and Miriam Jaffe

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 14

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The Sons of Phil: Rothian Self-Satire and Self-Incrimination in Shalom Auslander’s Foreskin’s Lament and Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure
The Sons of Phil: Rothian Self-Satire and Self-Incrimination in Shalom Auslander’s Foreskin’s Lament and Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure

David Brauner

Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2017 • 15

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Marriage and Sexuality in Pearl Abraham’s The Romance Reader and Hush by Judy Brown
Marriage and Sexuality in Pearl Abraham’s The Romance Reader and Hush by Judy Brown

Eva van Loenen

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2018 • 2

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