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Genealogies of Orientalism and Occidentalism: Sephardi Jews, Muslims, and the Americas 东方主义和西方主义的宗谱:西班牙犹太人、穆斯林和美洲

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.1.0013

Ella Shohat, R. Stam

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引用次数: 3

After the Revolution to the War on Terror: Iranian Jewish American Literature in the United States 革命后到反恐战争:美国的伊朗犹太文学

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.1.0052

Leah Mirakhor

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Black Panther Palestine 黑豹巴勒斯坦

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.1.0077

Alex Lubin

引用次数: 5

Editor’s Introduction 编辑器的介绍

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1b9f5f2.4

Benjamin Schreier

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“The World Awaits Your Yiddish Word”: Jacob Glatstein and the Problem of World Literature 《世界在等待你的意第绪语》:雅各布·格拉茨坦与世界文学问题

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.2.0175

S. Zaritt

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引用次数: 3

Laura Z. Hobson and the Making of Gentleman’s Agreement 劳拉·z·霍布森和《君子协定》的订立

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.2.0231

R. Gordan

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引用次数: 2

“What about a Teakettle?”: Anxiety, Mourning, and Burial in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close “一个茶壶怎么样?”——乔纳森·萨夫兰·福尔《极其响亮，极其亲密》中的焦虑、哀悼和埋葬

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.2.0274

V. Bryan

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We Will Not Be Silent: I. L. Peretz’s “Bontshe the Silent” vs. 1950s Mccarthyism in America and the Story of the Staging of The World of Sholom Aleichem 我们不会沉默:i.l.佩雷兹的《沉默的邦特》与20世纪50年代美国的麦卡锡主义和肖洛姆·阿莱奇姆世界的舞台故事

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.2.0204

Adi Mahalel

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Stanley Kunitz’s Cracked Vocation 斯坦利·库尼茨的破碎职业

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0134

Jim Cocola

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“Women and poets see the truth arrive”: Muriel Rukeyser and Walt Whitman “女人和诗人看到了真相的到来”:穆里尔·鲁凯瑟和沃尔特·惠特曼

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0094

Dara Barnat

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