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This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader's dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers' interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1Differences
- 2As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician’s Story
- 3Other Things Being Equal
- 4Joseph Zalmonah
- 5Yekl and The Imported Bridegroomand Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
- 6Children of Men
- 7Q.E.D.
- 8Motl, the Cantor’s Son
- 9The Tether
- 10The Rise of David Levinsky
- 11The Chosen People
- 12Fanny Herself
- 13Salome of the Tenements
- 14Haunch, Paunch and Jowl
- 15Bread Givers
- 16Amerika
- 17The Island Within
- 18Arnold Levenberg
- 19Singermann
- 20Bottom Dogs
- 21 Jews without Money
- 22By the Waters of Manhattan
- 23Thicker Than Water
- 24Miss Lonelyhearts andThe Day of the Locust
- 25Call It Sleep
- 26Summer in Williamsburg,Homage to Blenholt, and Low Company
- 27The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
- 28I Can Get It for You Wholesale
- 29Tomorrow’s Bread
- 30As a Driven Leaf
- 31What Makes Sammy Run?
- 32Jewish Cowboy [Der Yidisher Kauboy]
- 33The Family Carnovsky
- 34Focus
- 35Passage from Home
- 36Wasteland
- 37East River
- 38The Amboy Dukes
- 39My Glorious Brothers
- 40The Naked and the Dead
- 41The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories
- 42A Stone for Danny Fisher
- 43The Adventures of Augie March
- 44Blessed Is the Land
- 45Marjorie Morningstar
- 46Compulsion
- 47Remember Me to God
- 48The Assistant
- 49Shadows on the Hudson
- 50Exodus
- 51Goodbye, Columbus and Five Stories
- 52The Pawnbroker
- 53Tell Me a Riddle
- 54Stern
- 55Herzog
- 56To an Early Grave
- 57Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late
- 58Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers
- 59The Last Jew in America
- 60Green: A Novella and Eight Stories
- 61Tsemakh Atlas/The Yeshiva
- 62Waiting for the News
- 63Portnoy’s Complaint
- 64Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
- 65Bech, a Book
- 66The Book of Daniel
- 67Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse
- 68Jacob’s Son
- 69The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
- 70Edwin Mullhouse: The Life andDeath of an American Writer,1943–1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright
- 71My Name Is Asher Lev
- 72In the Days of Simon Stern
- 73Fear of Flying
- 74A Star in the Family
- 75My Own Ground
- 76Refiner’s Fire: The Life and Adventuresof Marshall Pearl, a Foundling
- 77In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
- 78A Weave of Women
- 79A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
- 80Good as Gold
- 81O My America!
- 82The Mind-Body Problem
- 83Hungry Hearts
- 84Disturbances in the Field
- 85Heartburn
- 86Mainland
- 87Her First American
- 88Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven
- 89The Ritual Bath
- 90The Shawl
- 91The Great Letter E
- 92He, She, and It
- 93Operation Shylock: A Confession
- 94The Prince of West End Avenue
- 95The Collected Stories
- 96Mr. Vertigo
- 97A Disturbance in One Place
- 98The Romance Reader
- 99While the Messiah Tarries
- 100Tales Out of School
- 101Mona in the Promised Land
- 102The Complete Stories
- 103The Puttermesser Papers
- 104American Pastoral
- 105Like Never Before
- 106Paradise, New York
- 107The Jew of New York
- 108For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
- 109The Ladies Auxiliary
- 110Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
- 111The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- 112Bee Season
- 113Days of Awe
- 114Paradise Park
- 115Everything Is Illuminated
- 116The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
- 117Old School
- 118San Remo Drive
- 119The First Desire
- 120Joy Comes in the Morning
- 121Collected Stories
- 122The World to Come
- 123The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
- 124The Collected Stories
- 123. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
- 124. The Collected Stories
- 125. Petropolis
- Appendixes
- Index by Author
- Index by Title
- Index by Subject