Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
הציונות; מאסף לתולדות התנועה הציונות והיישוב היהודי בארץ-ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
כא (תשנח) 355-369
Keywords:
סינקלר, ג'ו
;
בלו, סול,
;
מילר, ארתור,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Examines the responses of American-Jewish intellectuals to encounters with antisemitism in the USA and to the dissonance between their Jewish and American identities, as reflected in "A Symposium on Racial and Religious Prejudice", published in February and May 1945 in the "Journal of Social Issues", edited by Gene Weltfish; in the novel by Ruth Seid (alias Jo Sinclair), "Wasteland" (1946); in Saul Bellow's novel "The Victim" (1947); and in Arthur Miller's novel "Focus" (1945). The first three works depict the Jews' situation as that of the "ghetto", whose walls must be torn down in order for the Jew to be accepted in American society. Miller, in contrast, presaged that the symbol of the Jew as victim, rather than disappear, would take on a universal and all-American significance, making the Jewish condition, via the Shoah, a universal rather than a particularistic issue.
Note:
על הדיון בכתב העת "The Journal of Social Issues" ב-1945, ועל ספריהם של ג'ו סינקלר, סול בלו וארתור מילר.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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