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Deborah Wallrabenstein

Sounds of a New Generation


On Contemporary Jewish American Literature
2017. 204 S. Klebebindung. 225 mm
Verlag/Jahr: TRANSCRIPT 2017
ISBN: 3-8376-3986-X (383763986X)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-8376-3986-5 (9783837639865)

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This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors´ "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation Americans who don´t worry about assimilation as their parents´ generation did? If so, how does the writing of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union fit into the picture? Unlike Irving Howe predicted in 1977, Jewish-American literature did not fade after immigration. It always finds new paths, drawing from the vast scope of Jewish life in America.
Deborah Wallrabenstein completed her dissertation project at the department of Jewish studies at the University of Basel. She has studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Massachusetts. Currently she is Deputy Head of Communications at the University Children´s Hospital Basel, Switzerland.