Shiffman College Bound

The Pursuit of Education in Jewish American Literature, 1896-1944
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6724-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shiffman, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Success Narratives?

1. The Halo of Higher Learning in the Work of Abraham Cahan

2. A Reprieve at Best: Education in the Writing of Mary Antin and Elizabeth G. Stern

3. Anzia Yezierska’s Frustrated Pursuit of Education

4. M. E. Ravage, Ludwig Lewisohn, and Lionel Trilling: Education at the “Real American” University

5. The Hidden Curriculum in Leo Rosten’s H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Stories

Epilogue
A Space Apart

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Shiffman teaches Secondary English at the International School of Hamburg and is the author of Rooting Multiculturalism: The Work of Louis Adamic.