The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century - - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2010 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: - - examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers - includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen - contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature - provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. - Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.