Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

<p>Now available in paperback for the first time <em>Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century</em> is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.</p><p>This volume: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>examines canonical Jewish writers less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew and emerging Israeli writers </li> <li>includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust Franz Kafka Tristan Tzara Eugene Ionesco Harold Pinter Tom Stoppard Arthur Miller Saul Bellow Nadine Gordimer and Woody Allen</li> <li>contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing Holocaust literature and memoirs Yiddish writing and Anglo-Jewish literature</li> <li>provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers.</li> </ul><p>Compiled by expert contributors this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors each consisting of a biography a list of selected publications a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading. </p>