From Library Journal
What a monumental task these authors have set for themselves, and how magnificently they have achieved it! The authors have scoured, assessed, selected, and carefully annotated secondary source material about 62 Jewish American fiction writers and their individual works, including book-length criticism, critical articles and chapters, interviews, biographical sources, bibliographies, and dissertations. (Their definition of "Jewishness" is that the author is "marked by a Jewish American acculturation.") Authors included range from Walter Abish, Max Apple, and Scholem Asch to Leon Uris, Herman Wouk, and Sol Yurick. Not included--because of obvious space limitations--are authors for whom individual bibliographies already exist, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Elie Wiesel. Thus, libraries that purchase this book will need to have the individual bibliographies on these popular Jewish writers as well. Nevertheless, as a critical bibliography, this book is superior in coverage and content to Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction Writers (Gale, 1984), a volume in Gale's "Dictionary of Literary Biography" series, which is bio-bibliographical in approach and is now seven years old. Jewish American Fiction Writers is highly recommended.
- Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
