Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film

by Aaron Tillman

Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture-language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans-Aaron Tillman asks how we portray identities and differences that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498565026
• ISBN13: 9781498565028
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"