Announcements

Special Issues

Studies in American Jewish Literature announces three upcoming special issues for which we are soliciting articles and reviews. Please direct inquiries and expressions of interest to the appropriate guest editors.

1. Before the Flood: Early Jewish American Writing

Guest Editor: Michael P. Kramer

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2012

Two centuries before the flood of East European Jewish immigration to America, Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews had been living and writing in America. However, aside from a few well-known exceptions, little scholarship has been devoted to these poets, playwrights, novelists, theologians, preachers, and other writers. Studies in American Jewish Literature wishes to encourage the development of this field by inviting submissions of original scholarship dealing with any of a variety of aspects of pre-twentieth-century Jewish American literary history, from the conversionist tracts of Judah Monis through the early Jewish American press to the "science fiction" of Herman M. Bien. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012. Please address queries and expressions of interest to Michael P. Kramer at michael.kramer@biu.ac.il.

2. Jewish American Poetry

Guest Editors: Kathryn Hellerstein and Maeera Shreiber

Submission Deadline: January 1, 2013

For a special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature, we seek critical and scholarly essays on Jewish American poetry—Jewish poetry written in America, American poetry written by Jews on matters Jewish, or American poetry written in Jewish languages, including Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino. The essays should consider questions of literary lineage, intertextuality, gender, genre, exegesis, translation, ethnicity, or identity. Comparative and interdisciplinary work is welcome. Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2013. Please address queries or expressions of interest to both Maeera Shreiber (m.shreiber@english.utah.edu) and Kathryn Hellerstein (khellers@sas.upenn.edu).

3. Arab, Muslim, and Jewish in Critical Conversation

Guest Editors: Dean Franco and Dalia Kandiyoti

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013

For a special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature, we seek essays that put Arab, Muslim, and Jewish American literatures in critical conversation. Essays may be comparative or may think through concepts associated with history, religion, and race relevant to Arabs, Muslims, and Jews. Essays may address the discontents of assimilation, the "war on terror" and corollary national attention to Israel/Palestine, and common cultural and geographic imaginaries for Sephardic and Muslim writers. Completed papers must be submitted by June 30, 2013. Please address inquires and expressions of interest to both Dean Franco at francodj@wfu.edu and Dalia Kandiyoti at dalia.kandiyoti@csi.cuny.edu.