Author: ten Lohuis, Eli
Title: Towards a Winning of the West. Novels by East European Jewish Immigrants to America and Their American Offspring. (dissertation Universiteit Leiden)
Description: Leiden, 2003. Ppb., 452 pp. ( + theses). (The author examines seven novels written by first and second generation Jewish immigrants into the U.S.A.; she raises the question of integration and sticking to cultural values of shtetl life; furthermore the literary figure of the Yiddish Mama and other specific features in Jewish-American literature are explored).

Keywords: Judaism, U.S.A., writers, authors, literature, Jewish immigrants, Jewry, shtetl,


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