Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews

by Omri Asscher

Book Overview

American and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the "heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy." But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary form-when Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503610055
• ISBN13: 9781503610057
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"