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In a unique study of AngloJewish writers in the postwar period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community from slum poverty to suburban affluence. This period is one of crucial social change in Britain. At the same time, Dr. Sicher raises serious questions about the modern writer’s cultural and ethnic identity. In this process, Dr. Sicher advances the thesis that, under the impetus of the Holocaust, the more traditional conflict between Jewish roots and assimilation has been succeeded by a reassessment of identity and morality. Dr. Sicher’s perspective on this particular period of literature is a highly original one and it should provoke creative reconsideration of other contexts and times as well.

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  1. cover
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  1. fm
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xv
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  1. Writers in the Isles
  1. Chapter One Assimilators and Assimilated: From Israel Zangwill to Louis Golding
  2. pp. 3-14
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  1. Chapter Two Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Literature: A Political and Cultural Background
  2. pp. 15-26
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  1. East
  1. Chapter Three East End Writers I: Litvinoff, Mankowitz, Kops
  2. pp. 29-54
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  1. Chapter Four East End Writers II: Arnold Wesker
  2. pp. 55-88
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  1. East—North-East
  1. Chapter Five Hackney and Other Provinces: Harold Pinter and Peter Shaffer
  2. pp. 91-114
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  1. North-West
  1. Chapter Six The Golders Green Novel: Glanville, Charles, Rubens, Raphael
  2. pp. 117-136
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  1. After
  1. Chapter Seven Anglo-Jewish Poetry After the Holocaust: Dannie Abse and Jon Silkin
  2. pp. 139-152
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  1. Chapter Eight The Poetry of Survival
  2. pp. 153-168
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 169-188
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  1. Bibliography of Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Writing
  2. pp. 189-228
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 229-235
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