Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

David Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of two monographs - Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Transatlantic Connections (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001) and Philip Roth (Manchester University Press, 2007) - and has also published widely on twentieth-century Jewish literature, contemporary American fiction and post-war novelizations of biblical narratives. Dr Axel Stähler is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. He is the editor of Writing Fundamentalism, with Klaus Stierstorfer (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and Anglophone Jewish Literature (Routledge, 2007).

This most comprehensive volume is replete with fascinating material creating much food for thought. Sturdily bound, with a typeface not difficult on ageing eyes and an attractive jacket...is highly recommended for all reference collections.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface: Jews Have Legs, Mark ShechnerIntroduction: Modern Jewish Fiction, David Brauner and Axel StählerI: American Jewish Fiction1: Pioneering Women Writers and the Deghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction, Lori Harrison-Kahan2: Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow, Catherine Morley3: The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction, Victoria Aarons4: ‘Are you kidding me?’: Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield, and Bruce Jay Friedman, David Gooblar5: American Jewish Life Writing, Illness, and the Ethics of Innovation, Aimee Pozorski6: From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women’s Writing, Rachel Harris7: Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigré Jewish Writers from the USSR, Sasha Senderovich8: History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories, David Brauner 9: Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner’s ‘A Contract with God’, Sarah Lightman10: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, Jennifer Lemberg11: Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers, Monica Osborne 12: Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren’t, Debra ShostakII: British Jewish Fiction 13: The Postwar ‘New Wave’ of British Jewish Writing, Efraim Sicher14: Jewish Emigré and Refugee Writers in Britain, David Herman15: Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons, Phyllis Lassner16: Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature, Ruth Gilbert17: Life Writing and the East End, Devorah Baum18: ‘Almost too good to be true’: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon, Axel Stähler19: The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon, Axel Stähler20: British Jewish Holocaust Fiction, Sue Vice21: Reading Matters: ‘Marginal’ British Jewish Writers, Beate NeumeierIII: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction 22: Jewish Writing in Canada, Ira Nadel23: South African Jewish Writers, Linda Weinhouse24: Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia, Claudia B. Braude25: Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey, Serge Liberman26: ‘Migrant’ Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora, Sandra Singer27: Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War, Emily Robins Sharpe28: Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, Shaul Bassi; List of ContributorsBibliography