Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 by Susanne Klingenstein New Year My Mother's Son

My Mother's Son

the origins of a magical charm against the evil eye

Loli Kantor is the daughter of Holocaust survivors who lost nearly their entire families

To achieve her success

author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian

Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 by Susanne Klingenstein New Year My Mother's SonIn this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain. Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique intellectual paths taken by scholars such as Harry Levin, Daniel Aaron, M. H. Abrams, Leo Marx, and Sacvan Bercovitch. At Columbia University,