Representative writers of Jewish literature

The typical theme of the first generation of American Jewish literature is to describe the contradiction between assimilation, assimilation and nostalgia, personal success and regret over the crisis of Jewish identity. The representative writers of the first generation of Jewish literature are Mary Anting and Abraham Kahn. Mary An Ting 188 1 was born in Russia, went to the United States at the age of thirteen, and died in 1949. Her masterpiece The Promised Land (19 12) is an autobiography. Abraham Kahn was born in 1860 and also in Russia. He moved to the United States in 1882 and died in 195 1. Kahn is one of the founders of the Jewish daily Forward and has been the editor-in-chief of the newspaper since 19 1 1. 1869, he published the story of Isel-new york ghetto, describing a Jew who emigrated to the United States. He doesn't want to erase his past life in Russia, his wife and son, and he can't make it consistent with the American way of life. Later, his wife came to the United States to find him, and the two could not live together and finally divorced. His masterpiece is the novel The Rise of David Lewinsky (19 17), which describes a poor Jewish child who still misses his childhood after becoming a capitalist.

There are two American Jewish writers between the first generation and the second generation, namely, Anzia Yezeska and Samuel olney. Anzia Yezeska, female writer, 1885 was born in Russia. She is the author of short stories and memoirs. Describe life on the Lower East Side of new york in her works. 1920, Yezeska published a collection of short stories with the theme of "Americanization", Hungry Heart. Samuel olney's waist, legs, stomach and chin: an autobiography was published in 1923. This book is different from the works of the first generation of American Jewish writers, and has a "disrespectful" attitude towards Americanization as the second generation of American Jewish writers. The contradiction between tradition and assimilation is more prominent in the works of the second generation of American Jewish writers. Meyer Levin was born in Chicago on 1905. He was a journalist, actor, photographer and novelist. He wrote many short stories reflecting Jewish life. His first novel, The Correspondent (1929), was closed because of being accused of libel. 1937 published Once upon a time, reflecting the life of his generation. In the same year, Daniel Fuchs completed his Williamsburg trilogy, including Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Salute to Brenhardt (1936) and Companion of the Lower Class (1937). These three works describe a series of contradictions in different habits between two generations of Jews in humorous language around some plots such as suicide, murder, funeral and underworld.

After the war, many best-selling American Jewish literary works appeared. Novels such as herman wouk's Morning Star in Marjory (1955), The Storm of War (197 1), Miron Kaufman's Waiting for God for Me (1957) and Leon Julies's Exodus. Essays like Harry Gordon's Only in America (1959) and Ordinary Two Cents. For example, Karl Shapiro's Poem of a Jew (1958), The Swamp on the Pleasant River (1965), Holland's Cracks in Tribulus (1958) and Dream of a Baby Carriage (/.

The most famous contemporary American Jewish writers are Saul Bellow, norman mailer, bernard malamud, Salinger and philip roth.