Modern Jewish Women Writers in America

PART I: THE EARLY YEARS - IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: 1910-1950s Re-Thinking Mary Antin and The Promised Land - Jules Chametzky Anzia Yezierska: Between Two Worlds; Bound to the Old, Longing for the New - Evelyn Avery Edna Ferber, Jewish American Writer: Who Knew? - Eileen Watts PART II:THE ROADS DIVERGE - ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1960s-1990s "My Own Design": Finding Identity in Anne Roiphe's Writing - Melanie Levinson Johanna Kaplan: The Author and Her Fiction - Nahma Sandrow and Carol Iannone Norma Rosen's Jewish Journey - Anne Shapiro PART III: THE COVENANT CONFIRMED?: 1990s-2000 Cynthia Ozick's Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom - Sarah Blacher Cohen Rebecca Goldstein: Tension and Ambivalence - Anna P. Ronell Dancing Before the Bride: An Autobiography - Miriyam Glazer Fantasies of Change in Allegra Goodman's Fiction - Victoria Aarons PART IV: INTRO INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PENDULUM SWINGS In Hitler's Embrace: "Love" between Jews and Germans in Binnie Kirschenbaum's Fiction - Susanne Klingenstein "Writing Between Worlds" - Tova Mirvis Across the Generations: A Conversation - Evelyn Avery & Tova Mirvis Annotated Select Bibliography, Jewish American Women Authors - Eileen Watts