Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "e;the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'"e; Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "e;non-Jewish"e; languages. The essays also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their "e;search for a useable past."e; From essays on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's novels, this book provides a strong overview of contemporary themes in Jewish literary studies.