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American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction

American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction

Cappell, Ezra

Paperback

Series: Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 0791471241
ISBN13: 9780791471241
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 3 2008
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.21 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish American fiction and places it squarely within the larger context of American literature. Cappell departs from the conventional approach of defining Jewish American authors solely in terms of their ethnic origins and sociological constructs, and instead contextualizes their fiction within the theological heritage of Jewish culture. By deliberately emphasizing historical and ethnographic links to religions, religious texts, and traditions, Cappell demonstrates that twentieth-century and contemporary Jewish American fiction writers have been codifying a new Talmud, an American Talmud, and argues that the literary production of Jews in America might be seen as one more stage of rabbinic commentary on the scriptural inheritance of the Jewish people.

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