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Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics. By Maeera Y. Shreiber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi + 287 pp.
A persistent item on the agenda of American Jewish culture, at least since the publication of Cynthia Ozick's 1970 manifesto "Toward A New Yiddish," has been to figure out how to conceptualize literary works by modern American Jews in relation to broader, more established Jewish traditions, from liturgy to rabbinic commentary. Many critics and readers have followed Ozick's lead in considering that even in modern-day America, where acculturation to dominant norms has proceeded apace and where Yiddish and Hebrew have been largely displaced by English, it is possible to discern signs of distinctly Jewish creativity in the realm of imaginative literature. Such writing would be Jewish not merely because it might occasionally refer to the Bible or because it might depict characters eating bagels or complaining to their zaydes, but because it would truly ruminate upon, engage,...
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