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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Jewish American"”.
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
By the time anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda was widely analogizing Jews to rodents and other nonhuman animals in need of extermination, the accusation that Jewish people might be subhuman, or nonhuman, had been informing non-Jewish perceptions of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. As Jay Geller …
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… examines the fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a …
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
… study of three immigrant themes in Jewish-American literature: transformation, freedom, and connection. It covers a number of twentieth century writers whose central concerns revolve around issues of assimilation. Chapter I gives a brief overview of the topic.</p><p>Chapter II …
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East Side Story: Jewish American Writing In New York City, 1898-1934
In my thesis, the category "Jewish American literature" pinpoints a historical and cultural moment specific to these immigrant writers and identifies a set of concerns about identity--religious, ethnic and national--stemming from their position within the space of the Lower East Side. Just as …
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“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature
… share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar trajectories, each author answers the still relevant question of how immigrants might successfully …
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Narratives of Jewish American Public School Educators Amid Rising Antisemitism Post October 7, 2023
<p>This study investigated how Jewish American public school educators are responding to rising antisemitism post-October 7, 2023. While research exists on global antisemitism, the experiences of Jewish educators within the unique context of American public schools represent a significant and …
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Cultural Identity and the dilemma of "in-betweenness" in selected Arab-American and Jewish-American novels.
… to be conceived as an exile for citizens. The Jewish-American and Arab-American narratives under study demonstrate this aspect of ‘home as exile’ and reflect the amount of culminating suffering and anxiety that direct the native’s gaze towards the West. The liminal situation between home as …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… will focus on four popular novels by Jewish-American women writers and the relatively neglected area of the imaginative representation of women’s experiences within post-holocaust Ultra-Orthodoxy. It will explore the notion of what an Ultra-Orthodox heroine is and examine whether a …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
… of this thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s guilt through fiction. …
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Amateur and Community-Based Theatre Within Jewish Organizational Spaces in Post-World War II America
… examines amateur and community-based Jewish theatrical performance in Jewish organizational spaces in the United States since World War II, arguing that such productions simultaneously reflect and construct localized Jewish American communities. To define what constitutes a Jewish …
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Words to the Wives: The Jewish Press, Immigrant Women, and Identity Construction, 1924-1925
… how six publications sought to construct Jewish- American identities for Eastern European Jewish immigrant women between 1895 and 1925, beginning in 1895 with the world's first Jewish women's magazine, American Jewess (1895 - 1899), followed by a women's magazine in Yiddish, Di froyen-velt …
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Kaddish: Allen Ginsberg's American Elegy
… mother, Naomi, serves symbolically for all Jewish-American women and her fate embodies that of the Jewish people, and in fact, all of America. The structure and content of the poem are analyzed, as well as related work; including poems, correspondence and journals. A large portion of this …
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Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit
… /t/-release variant in the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit who were born two years apart and who have similar socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Despite superficial similarities between the speakers, their use of the variant differs considerably—with one speaker using …
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Tectonic shift: a scientific account of my young adulthood
… science has played in my life: as a student, a Jewish American, a friend, a daughter, a writer. My personal search for an understanding of the world around me is what ties together the pieces in Tectonic Shift. In these pages I explore everything from my views on creative nonfiction to my …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
This thesis discusses passing and performing as Jewish in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen, Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. In the introduction, I provide historical background on the development of the concept of race, Jewish American assimilation, and racial …
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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the world when he called for "terrorism" against his country's closest military …
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
This study of the life and thought of American Jewish philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) explores the discursive fields from which American Jewish modernity developed. Through a close analysis of Kallen's writings and relationships, of his engagement with print culture, and of his …
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Disadvantaged Social Class And Clients' Experiences In Therapy: A Qualitative Investigation
… diverse ethnic backgrounds, including European American (n = 8), Hispanic American (n = 5), African American (n = 3), Jewish American (n = 1), and biracial (European and Native American; n = 1). Most participants reported a yearly household income less than $10,000 (n = 11), and that they were …
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The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?
… Of the four of us, two are males: one from Jewish-American and the other from German-Romanian descent, and two are females: both from Persian descent. The four participants ranged from 39 to 71 years of age at the time of the interviews, with the losses occurring 3 to 25 years before the …
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Construct Validation of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale for Ashkenazic Jews in the United States
… non-Orthodox Ashkenazic (of European descent) American Jews. While Jewish-American biculturalism has been explored at length, there is a dearth of psychological research on Jewish-White biculturalism (Langman, 1999). Furthermore, the literature has yet to explore the impact of Jewish religious …
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