Homelands of the Heart: Israel and Jewish Identity in American Jewish Fiction


 

Publication Date: January 1996

Publisher: Magnes Press (Jerusalem); Ben-Gurion Research Center

Author(s): Sylvia Barack Fishman

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jews; Literature

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The article examines depictions of Israel in current American Jewish fiction, using a case study Philip Roth's two works about Jews and Jewishness, a 1986 novel, The Counterlife, and a 1993 book, Operation Shylock.