Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature ed. by Kitty Millet and Dorothy Figueira (review)

nostalgia to reveal the overdetermined meanings of the texts she discusses as well as the prooftexts on which those texts rely, and the way those meanings were manipulated by writers and intellectuals to reconstruct a particular image of the Jewish past for American Jews building a post-Holocaust Jewish identity. Despite the minor organizational flaw that the book lacks subheadings for its very long, multilayered chapters, this volume is an essential contribution not only to the field of literary studies, but also to the study of postwar American Jewish life and culture, as well as the role of mediated texts in the creation of folk ethnographies.