jewish

Question 1

jewish authors beginnings to ealy 20th century

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Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Chaim Potok

Question 2

Gertrude Stein

Answer 2

became one of the most influential prose-stylists of the early 20th century​, jewish one

Question 3

jewish comtemporary literature

Answer 3

continues to examine dilemmas of identity, especially related to the Holocaust and the trends of both ongoing assimilation and cultural rediscovery​

influence of modernism and postmodernism – elements of didacticism, self-portaiture, meta-fiction

Question 4

jewish authors of contemporary lit.

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Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Joshua Cohen, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, etc.

Question 5

common features of jewish

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influence of the Yiddish language, especially in early literature​
common themes: assimilation vs cultural preservation, intergenerational conflict, Jewish identity in America​

style and techniques: humor and satire, magical realism, autobiographical elements​

​more contemporary iterature involves themes such as: evolving Jewish identities, interfaith relationships, diaspora vs homeland​

Question 6

author of eli the fanatic

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philip roth

Question 7

philip roth

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American novelist and short-story writer​
presents a new Jewish character: positive, but also neurotic, schizophrenic, a trouble-maker, not victimized

Question 8

works of philip roth

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‘Zuckerman’ novels, ‘Kepesh’ novels, ‘Roth’ novels and memoirs, ‘Nemeses’ novels, and other fiction (e.g., Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959))

Question 9

goodbye columbus

Answer 9

written in 1959​

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deals with the concerns of second and third-generation assimilated American Jews​

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successful, but controversial​

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Roth accused of being a ‘self-hating Jew’

Question 10

setting of eli the fanatic

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1953, Woodenton, New York​

Question 11

context of eli the fanatic

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1948 – Displaced Persons Act – heavily restricted Jewish DPs from immigrating into the US​

Question 12

narration of eli the fanatic

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3rd person limited, Eli’s POV

Question 13

conflicts in eli the fanatic

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The Yeshiva vs Woodenton​
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Eli vs himself​

Question 14

symbolf of eli the fanatic

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the black suit, the green suit

Question 15

sublects matters of eli the fanatic

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religion, morality, mental health, identitity

Question 16

theme of eli the fanatic

Answer 16

You cannot really escape who you are and where you come from.​