Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category?Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak an
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what
A Knight at the Opera examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhauser played in Jewish cultural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th
The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit―but whose story has gone untold until nowJune 1942. The Third Reich is victorious eve
Garrett (Judaic studies and English literature, U. of Denver) analyzes travel writing by Jews of eastern Europe from the 1870s to the 1930s, focusing on how they confronted the forces of modernization
Master storyteller and literary stylist, Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other author
