Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s

by Louis Harap

Around the turn of the century, the United States was still experiencing the mass migration of millions of Jews and other immigrants escaping oppression and poverty in Europe. Set against this historical backdrop, author Louis Harap examines the development of the Jewish American, as both writer and character, from 1900 to the 1950s. Creative Awakening traces fifty years' development of Jewish American fiction, poetry and humor, as it analyzes fictional portrayals of Jews themselves.

214 pages, Hardcover

First published March 18, 1987

Reviews

[Orla · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive text on the subject with a lot of detail. If it has a flaw it's that the author is clearly so interested in the subject that he goes off on wild, out of chronology, tangents.