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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Who put the shma in shmattas?" (1) This flippant question runs through the guilt-ridden mind of young Ira Stigman in Henry Roth's novel A Diving Rock on the Hudson (1995) as he leaves the room of a prostitute in Harlem...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is mightily refreshing to bypass the usual hand-wringing about the relationship between "American" and "ethnic" studies that has characterized so many ponderous conference sessions in recent years. Just a decade ago,...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHistorians have chronicled the importance of the settlement house to the development of public health, social work, and governmental welfare, but literary critics have been slow to acknowledge that the institution had a...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSo then, after having expelled all the Jews from all your kingdoms and domains, in the same month of January, Your Highnesses commanded me to take sufficient ships and sail to the said regions of India. And in...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince the mid-1970s more than 1.5 million Russian-speaking Jews have left the Soviet Union and its successor states. Some of them have become writers in the languages of their host countries, and in doing so they have...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs performance studies scholars and feminist teachers, we have long used embodied learning to help students apply the concepts we address in class. But in the "Jewish Identity and Performance in the U.S." undergraduate...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHow should we interpret the transnational economy of comic books produced and published by American Israelis in Israel that are distributed by American Jewish publishers in the United States? When such comic books earn...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the defining features of American Jewish literature as an academic subfield, as compared to other literary specialties, is how regularly it is taught by scholars who have not trained or published in the area. To...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor this special issue of MELUS, we asked four scholars to reflect briefly on their experiences of integrating the study of Jews and Jewishness into ethnic and American literature classes. In the responses that follow,...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany years ago, while serving as an acting chair of the University of Michigan's American Studies program, I was presented with a conundrum that might have tried the wisdom of Solomon. Our program possessed an ethnic...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJonathan Freedman's "Do American and Ethnic Studies Have a Jewish Problem; or, When Is an Ethnic Not an Ethnic, and What Should We Do about It?" highlights the degree to which Jewish American studies has fallen outside...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOnce a topic thought inappropriate for children, the Holocaust is now presented to them in a proliferation of undertakings: state-mandated educational programs beginning in elementary school, special exhibitions for...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is widely recognized that Jewish writers were leading figures in American literature in the twentieth century. They were so influential in the 1950s and 1960s, for example, that John Updike remarked that the stories...