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Traitors in love: The Spanish Civil War Romance Novel in Jewish North America 恋爱中的叛徒:北美犹太人的西班牙内战浪漫小说

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-08-16 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.2.0147

E. Sharpe

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引用次数: 1

“Enta Omri, You Are My Life”: Embracing the Arab Self in André Aciman’s Harvard Square “Enta Omri，你是我的生命”:拥抱哈佛广场上的阿拉伯自我

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.1.0033

Joyce Zonana

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引用次数: 2

Seeing is Believing: U.S. Imperial Culture and the Jerusalem Exhibit of 1904 眼见为实:美国帝国文化与1904年耶路撒冷展览

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.35.1.0098

Keith P. Feldman

引用次数: 1

Guest Editors’ Introduction 特邀编辑介绍

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Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2016-04-04 DOI: 10.5325/goodsociety.29.1-2.vi

D. Kandiyoti, Dean J. Franco

引用次数: 0

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

引用次数: 0

Black Panther Palestine 黑豹巴勒斯坦

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

引用次数: 0

“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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

“The Kindling Breath of Another Mind”: Anzia Yezierska’s Critique of American Education “另一种思想的燃烧气息”:安齐亚·叶泽尔斯卡对美国教育的批判

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-09-01 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.2.0257

D. Shiffman

引用次数: 0