Jewish American Literature Spring 2011 Required and Recommended Texts
Explore essential Jewish American literature with the Spring 2011 required and recommended reading list. Discover classic novels like Henry Roth's *Call It Sleep*, Anzia Yezierska's *Bread Givers*, and Budd Schulberg's *What Makes Sammy Run?*—featuring key works on immigrant life, identity, and the American experience from authors like Jules Chametzky and Ludwig Lewisohn.
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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son (Penguin Classics)
by Aleichem, Sholem
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Yekl ; and The imported bridegroom and other stories of the New York ghetto.
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The Island Within
by Ludwig Lewisohn
First published in the late 1920s, The Island Within was Ludwig Lewisohn's first novel to focus on a Jewish theme. Emerging from the experience of World War I and the 1920s, this novel on alienation and mixed marriage (and much more) addresses itself with undiminished power and relevance—and poignancy—to the peculiarities of American Jewish life that continue through to this day.
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Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the "dangerously imaginative" child coming of age in the slums of New York.
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What Makes Sammy Run?
by Budd Schulberg
The classic book that shaped two generations’ view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He’s got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shulberg—author of the screenplay On the Waterfront—follows Sammy’s relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate. “Sammy Glick remains at the top of the Hollywood sleaze heap, a hustler nonpareil…. What Makes Sammy Run? Is still the quintessential novel about “the all-American heel.’” – Moredcai Richler, GQ
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Jewish American Literature
by Jules Chametzky
A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.