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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Label	Occurrences
Jewish American literature canonical	6
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 of America ⓘ surface form: 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 (film) ⓘ surface form: Portnoy's Complaint The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ⓘ The Assistant ⓘ The Chosen ⓘ The Human Stain ⓘ surface form: 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 (7)

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Sholem Aleichem → influenced → Jewish American literature ⓘ

Sholom Aleichem → hasInfluenced → Jewish American literature ⓘ

Shosha → literaryMovement → Jewish American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: 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 ⓘ