Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States and Professor of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature (2005) and City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge, 1996). She is also the editor of New Essays on Call It Sleep (Cambridge, 1996), and The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (with Michael Kramer, Cambridge, 2003).

'… a masterly work of synthesis … marks a milestone in [the] institutionalization [of] Jewish-American writing …' Morris Dickstein, The Times Literary Supplement

• 1. Encountering the idea of America Julian Levinson; 2. Encountering English Hana Wirth-Nesher; 3. Encountering native origins Rachel Rubinstein; 4. Immigration and modernity, 1900–45 Werner Sollors; 5. Making it into the mainstream, 1945–70 Benjamin Schreier; 6. New voices, new challenges, 1970–2000 Michael Wood; 7. Religious selfhood, 1870–1950 Shira Wolosky; 8. Secularity, sacredness, and Jewish American poets, 1950–2000 Maeera Y. Shreiber; 9. Yiddish American poetry Avraham Novershtern; 10. Yiddish theater in America Nahma Sandrow; 11. Jewish American drama Edna Nahshon; 12. Jews and film Jonathan Freedman; 13. Hebrew in America Michael Weingrad; 14. Ladino in US literature and song Monique Rodrigues Balbuena; 15. Writing and remembering Jewish Middle Eastern pasts Dalia Kandiyoti; 16. The ghost of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish American literature Emily Miller Budick; 17. Israel in the Jewish American imagination Naomi Sokoloff; 18. Their New York: possessing the 'capital of words' Murray Baumgarten; 19. Spaces of Yidishkayt: New York in American Yiddish prose Mikhail Krutikov; 20. Landscapes: America and the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel; 21. Across the border: Canadian Jewish writing Rebecca Margolis; 22. The role of the public intellectual in American culture Jesse Raber; 23. The caravan returns: Jewish American literary anthologies, 1935–2010 Wendy I. Zierler; 24. Poetics and politics of translation Anita Norich; 25. Jews on America's racial map Adam Zachary Newton; 26. Gender poetics in Jewish American poetry Kathryn Hellerstein; 27. Performance: queerly Jewish/Jewishly queer in the American theater Alisa Solomon; 28. Jewish American comic books and graphic novels Laurence Roth; 29. Jewish American popular culture Stephen J. Whitfield; 30. Jewish humor in America Marc Caplan; 31. Since 2000 Josh Lambert.

Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States and Professor of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature (2005) and City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge, 1996). She is also the editor of New Essays on Call It Sleep (Cambridge, 1996), and The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (with Michael Kramer, Cambridge, 2003).

'… a masterly work of synthesis … marks a milestone in [the] institutionalization [of] Jewish-American writing …' Morris Dickstein, The Times Literary Supplement

• 1. Encountering the idea of America Julian Levinson; 2. Encountering English Hana Wirth-Nesher; 3. Encountering native origins Rachel Rubinstein; 4. Immigration and modernity, 1900–45 Werner Sollors; 5. Making it into the mainstream, 1945–70 Benjamin Schreier; 6. New voices, new challenges, 1970–2000 Michael Wood; 7. Religious selfhood, 1870–1950 Shira Wolosky; 8. Secularity, sacredness, and Jewish American poets, 1950–2000 Maeera Y. Shreiber; 9. Yiddish American poetry Avraham Novershtern; 10. Yiddish theater in America Nahma Sandrow; 11. Jewish American drama Edna Nahshon; 12. Jews and film Jonathan Freedman; 13. Hebrew in America Michael Weingrad; 14. Ladino in US literature and song Monique Rodrigues Balbuena; 15. Writing and remembering Jewish Middle Eastern pasts Dalia Kandiyoti; 16. The ghost of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish American literature Emily Miller Budick; 17. Israel in the Jewish American imagination Naomi Sokoloff; 18. Their New York: possessing the 'capital of words' Murray Baumgarten; 19. Spaces of Yidishkayt: New York in American Yiddish prose Mikhail Krutikov; 20. Landscapes: America and the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel; 21. Across the border: Canadian Jewish writing Rebecca Margolis; 22. The role of the public intellectual in American culture Jesse Raber; 23. The caravan returns: Jewish American literary anthologies, 1935–2010 Wendy I. Zierler; 24. Poetics and politics of translation Anita Norich; 25. Jews on America's racial map Adam Zachary Newton; 26. Gender poetics in Jewish American poetry Kathryn Hellerstein; 27. Performance: queerly Jewish/Jewishly queer in the American theater Alisa Solomon; 28. Jewish American comic books and graphic novels Laurence Roth; 29. Jewish American popular culture Stephen J. Whitfield; 30. Jewish humor in America Marc Caplan; 31. Since 2000 Josh Lambert.

Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States and Professor of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature (2005) and City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge, 1996). She is also the editor of New Essays on Call It Sleep (Cambridge, 1996), and The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (with Michael Kramer, Cambridge, 2003).

'… a masterly work of synthesis … marks a milestone in [the] institutionalization [of] Jewish-American writing …' Morris Dickstein, The Times Literary Supplement

• 1. Encountering the idea of America Julian Levinson; 2. Encountering English Hana Wirth-Nesher; 3. Encountering native origins Rachel Rubinstein; 4. Immigration and modernity, 1900–45 Werner Sollors; 5. Making it into the mainstream, 1945–70 Benjamin Schreier; 6. New voices, new challenges, 1970–2000 Michael Wood; 7. Religious selfhood, 1870–1950 Shira Wolosky; 8. Secularity, sacredness, and Jewish American poets, 1950–2000 Maeera Y. Shreiber; 9. Yiddish American poetry Avraham Novershtern; 10. Yiddish theater in America Nahma Sandrow; 11. Jewish American drama Edna Nahshon; 12. Jews and film Jonathan Freedman; 13. Hebrew in America Michael Weingrad; 14. Ladino in US literature and song Monique Rodrigues Balbuena; 15. Writing and remembering Jewish Middle Eastern pasts Dalia Kandiyoti; 16. The ghost of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish American literature Emily Miller Budick; 17. Israel in the Jewish American imagination Naomi Sokoloff; 18. Their New York: possessing the 'capital of words' Murray Baumgarten; 19. Spaces of Yidishkayt: New York in American Yiddish prose Mikhail Krutikov; 20. Landscapes: America and the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel; 21. Across the border: Canadian Jewish writing Rebecca Margolis; 22. The role of the public intellectual in American culture Jesse Raber; 23. The caravan returns: Jewish American literary anthologies, 1935–2010 Wendy I. Zierler; 24. Poetics and politics of translation Anita Norich; 25. Jews on America's racial map Adam Zachary Newton; 26. Gender poetics in Jewish American poetry Kathryn Hellerstein; 27. Performance: queerly Jewish/Jewishly queer in the American theater Alisa Solomon; 28. Jewish American comic books and graphic novels Laurence Roth; 29. Jewish American popular culture Stephen J. Whitfield; 30. Jewish humor in America Marc Caplan; 31. Since 2000 Josh Lambert.