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Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs.(Book review)

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs. By Donald Weber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 250 pp.

In Haunted in the New World, literary scholar Donald Weber takes readers along on an intellectual inquiry that is, for him, both scholarly a...

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...and personal. As he states most clearly in the book's engaging epilogue, Weber is compelled in part by (quoting Leon Wiesehier) nostalgia "for the nostalgia of Jewish fathers"--a longing for the Jewish Bronx of his baby-boomer childhood and the rich, complex engagement with Jewishness of his parents' generation, as well as by a desire to push beyond most earlier scholars' and critics' low...

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