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Yekl to Jake: Reading Cahan with Arendt Yekl to Jake：用阿伦特解读卡汉

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.2.0141

Sarah Schwartzman Ramsey

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Pre/Occupied Longing: Toward a Definition of Postnostalgia in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated 前/被占领的渴望：在乔纳森-萨弗兰-福尔的《万物皆明》中为 "后怀旧 "下定义

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.2.0121

Lucas F. W. Wilson

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"Love, Alex": Queering Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated "爱你的亚历克斯乔纳森-萨弗兰-福尔《万物皆明》的同性恋化

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.2.0158

Christopher C. Apap

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Memory and the Exigencies of Literary Form: Anthony Hecht's "The Book of Yolek" 记忆与文学形式的迫切性——安东尼·赫克特的《约莱克之书》

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.1.0055

K. Weisman

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Either War Is Finished or We Are: Why Herman Wouk's Duology Deserves a Second Look 要么战争已经结束，要么我们已经结束:为什么赫尔曼·沃克的二重奏值得重新审视

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.1.0070

David Pickus

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Estranging Adorno: The Dialectics of Alienation in Leonard Michaels's "I Would Have Saved Them If I Could" 游离的阿多诺：伦纳德·迈克尔斯《如果可以的话我会拯救他们》中的异化辩证法

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.1.0001

William Coker

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Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down Meets "I Do This, I Do That": Reconnecting Charles Reznikoff and Frank O'Hara 《去与去》和《上下漫步》相遇“我做这个，我做那个”：重新连接查尔斯·雷兹尼科夫和弗兰克·奥哈拉

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.42.1.0031

A. Davis

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Nomadism and Stasis in Transparent 游牧与停滞在透明中

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.41.2.0223

Ranen Omer‐Sherman

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Fantasy of Becoming 了不起的麦瑟尔夫人和成长的幻想

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.41.2.0202

Tahneer Oksman

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The Limits of Drag: Women, Gender, and the Other in Hayehudim Baim 阻力的极限：哈耶胡迪姆·拜姆的女性、性别和他人

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerijewilite.41.2.0185

Melissa Weininger

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