Book
A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction
University of Georgia Press
Description
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Keywords
- American fiction,
- Jewish authors,
- history,
- criticism,
- Jews,
- storytelling,
- memory,
- literature
Disciplines
Citation Information
Aarons, Victoria. A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.