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Jewish American literature

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American literature Jewish literature ethnic literature literature

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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Jewish-American literature ×1

Statements (91)

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 → 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 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sholom Aleichem →	hasInfluenced
Sholem Aleichem →	influenced
Shosha ("Jewish-American literature") →	literaryMovement