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Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature, Sarah Anne Hamner
Exile And Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution To Jewish-American Literature, Sarah Anne Hamner
MA in English Theses
Questions of identity and exile are deep in the bones of the Jewish people. In this thesis I will discuss the manifestations of exile and identity in the works of Chaim Potok, a Jewish-American novelist. Potok’s work has long been excluded from the canon of Jewish-American criticism. I suspect this exclusion is due to critical oversight, as Potok’s characters lead more traditional Jewish lives in terms of religious beliefs, backgrounds, and behaviors. In order to prove the critical value of Potok’s work I will note the gaps in Jewish-American criticism where Potok’s work is missing. Then I will concentrate around …
Regimes Of Prestige And Power: Transnational Authorship And International Acclaim In Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds, Kyle Eveleth
Regimes Of Prestige And Power: Transnational Authorship And International Acclaim In Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds, Kyle Eveleth
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
This essay will examine the reception of Rutu Modan’s international-award-winning graphic novel Exit Wounds (2007) in the massive cultural centers of the United States and France by situating its success within the inter/transnational dynamics of the contemporary comics market, or what James English would term an “economy of prestige.” My essay reconsiders Exit Wounds beyond its popular status as an international phenomenon—that is, one that crosses national borders but which maintains distinctions between those nations it enters and its home state—by considering it a transnational work—one which blurs the lines between nation-states in its form, function, and reception. To do …
The Papers Of Roberta Kalechofsky, Brooklyn College
The Papers Of Roberta Kalechofsky, Brooklyn College
Finding Aids
This small collection is comprised mainly of Roberta Kalechofsky’s writings. There are 3 boxes containing 40 file folders of Ms. Kalechofsky’s notes on the various short stories she has written, numerous scripts (handwritten or typed), as well as proofs of her book Bodmin: 1349, and a book penned in 1974 published the Writers’ Cooperative titled Justice, My Brother. In addition, there are also a number of CD’s and floppy discs with Ms. Kalechofsky’s writings.
Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy
Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.