Murray Baumgarten

Barbara Gottfried

The main aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive guide to the major writings of Philip Roth, articulating the overlapping contexts of his fiction. Dealing with the range of Roth's work - starting with Goodbye, Columbus in 1959, and including works from the 1960s and 1970s such as When She was Good, Portnoy's Complaint and My Life as a Man to The Counterlife in 1987 - this analytic study elaborates the course of his career as a major western writer who responds to the modern situation, the contemporary Jewish and ethnic predicament, the problems of gender and American literary, social and political history.

Understanding Philip Roth

The Ideas of History of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill

Peter Kenez

Bruce Allan Thompson

History, Ideology, Discourse

Varieties of Antisemitism

H. M. Daleski

Hillel Matthew Daleski

The essays in this volume deal centrally with Dickens's images of homelessness, but also with those of other Victorians also - Disraeli, Mrs Gaskell, Israel Zangwill, John Ruskin and Henry James. The issues addressed by these Victorians are the same as those we face today.

Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination

This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.

Modern Jewish Writing

City Scriptures

Murray Baumgarten

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