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No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth Century American Literature by Sharon B. Oster (review)
Ist Teil von
American Jewish History, 2021, Vol.105 (1), p.305-307
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The old Jewish joke goes something like this: two Jews are sitting on a park bench on New York City's Lower East Side reading newspapers. In my newspaper, we Jews control the world's banks, we own Hollywood—we're the most prosperous people on the face of the Earth. [...]while many modernist and realist writers created Jewish figures that a contemporary ear might perceive as less than flattering, Oster's dramatic shift in temporal orientation is a welcome one that leads to a greater understanding of not just how major Protestant writers like Henry James and Edith Wharton perceived of and wrote about Jews, but also how Jewish immigrant writers like Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, and Anzia Yezierska wrote about their co-religionists, fellow recent immigrants to American shores.