Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology

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Summary: Another rave
Review: Anybody's who is at all interested in Jewish culture will learn a lot from this book -- and enjoy it too. It's got a great section on Jews on broadway, an hysterical piece by Woody Allen, another highly readable set of Jewish jokes -- one can find historical information, interesting stuff on the immigrant's experiece, poetry, old and new, short stories as well as the standards like Roth and Bellow...You can pull this book down and start anywhere -- all the pieces are short so you don't get overwhelmed -- and feel instantly the richness and depth of the Jewish-American tradition.

Rating:
Summary: Another rave
Review: Anybody's who is at all interested in Jewish culture will learn a lot from this book -- and enjoy it too. It's got a great section on Jews on broadway, an hysterical piece by Woody Allen, another highly readable set of Jewish jokes -- one can find historical information, interesting stuff on the immigrant's experiece, poetry, old and new, short stories as well as the standards like Roth and Bellow...You can pull this book down and start anywhere -- all the pieces are short so you don't get overwhelmed -- and feel instantly the richness and depth of the Jewish-American tradition.

Rating:
Summary: It could have been better.
Review: This anthology attempts to considerably widen the Jewish canon introducing a large number of writers (many in Yiddish_ little known to the general reading public. It also does not choose the best of the major writers, and its selections here could be improved. But it does include a great deal of interesting material. It is not the best but it certainly it is far better than nothing.