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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

R. Gordan

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“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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

IF 0.3 3区文学

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

Dara Barnat

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To Organize Beauty: The Sonnets of Mani Leyb 组织美:摩尼·莱布的十四行诗

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0070

Jordan D. Finkin

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On Jacob Glatshteyn’s Sacco and Vanzetti Poem 论雅各布·格拉茨廷的《萨科与万泽蒂诗》

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0024

L. Rosenwald

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“The World Is Tref”: Delmore Schwartz, Jews, Poets and the Crisis of the Middle Generation 《世界是自由的》:德尔莫尔·施瓦茨、犹太人、诗人和中年一代的危机

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0117

Hilene Flanzbaum

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Hebrew on a Desert Island: The Case of Annabelle Farmelant 《荒岛上的希伯来人:安娜贝尔·法默兰特案例

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0154

Adriana X. Jacobs

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The Bounty of the Earth: I. J. Schwartz’s Kentucky 大地的恩惠:I. J.施瓦茨的肯塔基

IF 0.3 3区文学

Studies in American Jewish Literature Pub Date : 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.5325/STUDAMERJEWILITE.34.1.0006

Avraham Novershtern

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