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“Grotesquery to the Surface”: The Leo Frank Case and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America Revisited in Trump’s Alt-Right America “荒诞到表面”:利奥·弗兰克案和菲利普·罗斯的反美阴谋在特朗普的另类右翼美国重见天日

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.39.1.0044

B. Kaplan

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A Situation of Fear: Revisiting Sartre in Trump’s America 恐惧的处境:在特朗普的美国重新审视萨特

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.39.1.0073

Greenberg

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Trump and the “Jewish Question” 特邀编辑介绍:特朗普和“犹太人问题”

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.39.1.0004

Levi, Rothberg

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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope 内森·英格兰德的《犹太裔美国人时代错误的特殊情况部

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.38.1.001

N. Taub

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“A Little More Jewish, Please”: Black and Jewish Secularity and Invisibility in Fran Ross’s Oreo “请多一点犹太人”：弗兰·罗斯奥利奥的黑人与犹太世俗与隐形

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.38.1.023

Eli Bromberg

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The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal by Alan Robert Ginsberg (review) 《莎乐美合奏:罗斯·帕斯特·斯托克斯、安齐亚·叶泽尔斯卡、索尼娅·莱维恩和捷达·古达尔》作者:艾伦·罗伯特·金斯伯格(书评)

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.38.1.0084

L. Sanders

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory by Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger (review) 第三代大屠杀再现:创伤、历史和记忆作者:维多利亚·亚伦和艾伦·l·伯杰

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.38.1.0080

Jessica Lang

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Between Jew and Nature: Tracing Jewish Ethics in the Ecological Imagination of Bernard Malamud’s Dubin’s Lives 在犹太人与自然之间——从马拉穆德的杜宾生命生态想象中追寻犹太伦理

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.38.1.047

F. Clementi

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Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser (review) 《借来的声音:美国犹太人想象中的写作和种族腹语术》詹妮弗·格拉泽著(书评)

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/studamerjewilite.38.1.0076

R. Gordan

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"A Pure Language (or Lip)": Representing Hebrew in Colonial New England “一种纯粹的语言(或嘴唇)”代表新英格兰殖民地的希伯来语

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2018-09-08 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.37.2.0117

Rachel Wamsley

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