Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is a novel about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews living in Brooklyn toward the end of World War II, written in a contemporary vernacular. It is about two kinds of orthodoxy and about two subcultures confronting each… Read More ›
Jewish American literature
Analysis of Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s autobiographical first novel Call It Sleep (1934) has come to be recognized as one of the most poignant and honest depictions of immigrant, specifically Jewish immigrant, life in all of American literature. Its account of living conditions in… Read More ›
Analysis of Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers
According to Louise Levitas Henriksen, Anzia Yezierska’s daughter, Doubleday celebrated the publication of Bread Givers in 1925 with an advance printing of 500 numbered copies of the book to be presented to “important people” and a garden party in honor… Read More ›
Analysis of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel focuses on Josef (Joe) Kavalier and Sammy Clay (né Klayman), two artistically gifted cousins who create the masked comic-book hero, The Escapist, modeled on Superman, in New York City just before, during, and after World… Read More ›
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