Jewish Culture
 

A Home Within

Varieties of Jewish Expression in Modern Fiction

Leon I. Yudkin

ISBN 1-900814-00-5   194 + iv pages Symposium Press Paperback

In the violence and upheavals of the twentieth century the modern writer has often been alienated and unable to find a physical space he may call home. This book examines the way he carves out that inner space for himself in his work. During this period the Jew has been set adrift in his loss of traditional faith and moorings and caught in the hostility of the host society. The Jewish writer articulates his sense of loss with particular acuity, fashioning a literary modernism.

Contents          

Preface
Search for Literary Roots
Kafka: Midrash and the Modern Story
Buber and Prague: New-Old Cultural Home
Stranger in the World: Joseph Roth
The Social Aspiration of Anglo-Jewish Fiction
France as Idea and Reality
Yiddish in the Soviet Union
Place and Time in Amichai's Fiction
The Arab-Jewish Conflict in Recent Israeli Literature
Yitzhak Ben-Ner: Hero on the Margins

 

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