scholarly journals The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity. Benjamin Schreier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 228.

2021 ◽  
pp. E000-E000
Author(s):  
Donald Weber
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Jewish American Literature

Rising from the Gutter

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Jean Lee Cole
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Jewish American Literature ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
English Speaking

This chapter shows how the early comic strip was developed and then came to influence comic fiction in the early twentieth century. As the editor of the New York Journal‘s comic supplement, Rudolph Block regularized the use of panels, repetitive storylines, and caricature, resulting in the multi-panel format that defines the comic-strip genre. Block’s role in the development of the comic strip has gone largely unrecognized; as a writer of Jewish American literature, Block has been forgotten. Using the pseudonym Bruno Lessing, Block published nearly a hundred stories between 1905 and 1920 in popular magazines. These humorous stories, full of rich dialect and accompanied by vibrant illustrations, translated the multiethnic culture of the Lower East Side for a mainstream, English-speaking audience. Block represented dialect and caricature as opportunities for negotiation and play, providing ways to display identity in multiple and shifting forms.

The Cambridge history of Jewish American literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-170
Author(s):  
David Brauner
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Jewish American Literature ◽  
History Of

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish-American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff and Roth (review)

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-348
Author(s):  
Carole S. Kessner
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Jewish American Literature

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth (review)

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-410
Author(s):  
Phyllis Lassner
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Jewish American Literature
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