Research Guides: Jewish Studies Resources: Literary Studies

Jewish American Literature

Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature.
Jewish-American writers and their works of fiction, drama, and poetry as well as historically significant and very recent literature.

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Articles on Jewish life, culture, history, music, philosophy, and religion covering from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature.
Survey of all aspects of Jewish American literature including ethnic writing, exile & diaspora, gender studies, minority discourse, multilingualism, and transnational literature.
"Jewish American Literature." Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context.