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LITERARY CRITICISM:

Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Edited by Justin Daniel Cammy; Edited by Dara Horn; Edited by Alyssa Quint; Edited by Rachel Rubinstein; Ruth Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, Wisse's colleagues pay tribute to her with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature.; Hardcover January 2009

Strangers in the Land: Eric J. Sundquist; The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.; Paperback September 2008