Jewish American Literature

David Bezmozgis' hilarious--and profound--tales of an immigrant family in Canada.

Though neglected by the mainstream, the Jewish short story is alive and well.

Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 novel explores the dialectic between absence and presence.

Vibrancy and diversity mark the new crop of novelists and story writers.

This Nobel-winning Holocaust survivor brought the Holocaust and its survival to the American public.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) changed the face of American poetry.

A poem from Emma Lazarus's 1871 collection Ademtus and Other Poems

The poetry of Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), best known for the verse inscribed on the Statue of Liberty pedestal

A review of the Jewish satirist's long career in fiction.

Writing Hebrew literature in the 19th century was no simple matter, and those who did were the elite of the elite.