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Jewish American Literature

Encyclopaedia Judaica
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.
Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature.
Examines writers and their works of fiction, drama, and poetry as well as historically significant and very recent literature.
"Jewish American Literature." Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context.

MLA International Bibliography.
Academic journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations on literary theory & criticism, film & theater, radio & television, all aspects of folklore, and more.

Literature Online
Author pages, literary criticism, primary sources in full-text (selected poetry, drama and prose), bibliographies, reviews, and reference sources.

Coverage: 7th century to present
Gale Literary Sources
Biographies, literary & cultural analysis, work & topic overviews, selected full-text primary sources (short stories, poetry, speeches, plays, and essays), and more. Simultaneously searches Gale's Literature Criticism Series and most of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.