Jewish American literature

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Jewish American literature is a body of writing by American Jews that explores Jewish identity, culture, history, and religious experience within the context of American life.

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Label Occurrences
Jewish American literature canonical 6
Jewish-American literature 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American literature
Jewish literature
ethnic literature
literature
developedSignificantlyInCentury 20th century
emergedInCentury 19th century
hasCriticalConcept ethnic writing
minority discourse
multiculturalism
postmodernism
hasCulturalContext Jewish American culture
hasGeographicFocus United States
hasImportantHistoricalContext Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States
Holocaust
civil rights movement
postwar American society
hasNotableAuthor Abraham Cahan
Allen Ginsberg
Anzia Yezierska
Bernard Malamud
Chaim Potok
Cynthia Ozick
Delmore Schwartz
E. L. Doctorow
Emma Lazarus
Gary Shteyngart
Grace Paley
Henry Roth
Isaac Bashevis Singer
J. D. Salinger
Jonathan Safran Foer
Michael Chabon
Myla Goldberg
Nathan Englander
Nicole Krauss
Norman Mailer
Philip Roth
Rebecca Goldstein
Saul Bellow
Sholem Asch
Tillie Olsen
hasNotableWork Call It Sleep
Everything Is Illuminated
Goodbye, Columbus
Herzog
Portnoy's Complaint
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Assistant
The Chosen
The Fixer
linked to: The Human Stain

The New York Trilogy
The Pawnbroker
The Puttermesser Papers
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
hasPrimaryLanguage English
hasRelatedTradition Hebrew literature
Holocaust literature
Yiddish literature
diaspora literature
immigrant literature
religious literature
hasTheme American Dream
Holocaust memory
Jewish identity
Zionism
antisemitism
assimilation
class mobility
diaspora
ethnic humor
gender and Judaism
immigration
intergenerational conflict
memory and trauma
religious doubt
religious observance
secularism
suburbanization
urban life
includesGenre drama
essay
graphic novel
humor writing
memoir
novel
poetry
short story
isStudiedInDiscipline American studies
Jewish studies
cultural studies
literary studies

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Sholem Aleichem influenced Jewish American literature
Sholom Aleichem hasInfluenced Jewish American literature
Shosha literaryMovement Jewish-American literature
linked to: Jewish American literature
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger influenced Jewish American literature
Michael Chabon influencedBy Jewish American literature
Delmore Schwartz hasInfluencedGenre Jewish American literature
Abraham Cahan influenced Jewish American literature