American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction

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Abraham, Pearl Giving Up America, 204, 213 Adam Kadmon, 29–31, 33 Adorno, Theodor, 45 Agnew, Spiro, 205 Aleichem, Sholom, 8, 20, 132, 201, 208 Alexander the Great, 57 Alighieri, Dante, 95 Aliyah, 28, 136 Allen, Woody, 13 Crimes and Misdemeanors, 129, 208 Alter, Robert, 100, 204, 205, 213 The Art of Biblical Narrative, 14, 35, 213 Canon and Creativity, 11–13, 213 “Jewishness as Metaphor,” 42, 213 Anderson, Benedict, 12 Antin, Mary, 129 Appelfeld, Aharon, 115, 187–188 Badenheim 1939, 109, 213 Aquinas, Thomas, 27 Ariel, David S., 25 What Do Jews Believe? The Spiritual Foundations of Judaism, 213 Arnold, Matthew, 16, 81–82 Atlas, James, 55–56, 59, 72, 207 Bellow: A Biography, 100, 207, 213 Baal Shem Tov, 138 Baal(at) teshuvah, 68, 85, 123, 129 Babel, Isaac, 8, 131 The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, 213 Barthes, Roland, 166 Baseball, 84, 85 Bashert, 124 Baudrillard, Jean, 52, 203, 204 Simulacra and Simulation, 45–46, 213 Beis hamidrash, 149 Bellow, Saul “A Silver Dish,” 56, 63, 80, 88–89, 91–92, 95–97, 99 A Theft, 61 The Actual, 61 The Adventures of Augie March, 57–61, 76, 122, 213 American Pastoral, 56, 206, 211, 219 The Bellarosa Connection, 19, 56, 61, 63, 70, 88, 101–104, 213 Collected Stories, 61–62 Dangling Man, 56, 58–59, 61, 80, 82–83, 205, 206, 213 Henderson the Rain King, 205 Herzog, 72, 83, 205 Him with His Foot in His Mouth, 56, 62, 88, 213 Keynote address at Haifa University, 78–79 Mosby’s Memoirs, 56, 62, 177, 213 Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 60, 205 “The Old System,” 56, 58–68, 72–88, 136, 138, 171, 172, 206, 207 223 I N D E X Ravelstein, 62, 207 Seize the Day, 59, 61, 81, 83, 213 “Summations,” 78–79, 213 To Jerusalem and Back, 62 Benjamin, Walter, 166, 201–202 Illuminations, 201–202, 213 The Image of Proust, 162 Reflections, 213 “The Task of the Translator,” 201–202 Berger, Alan L, ix, 54, 59–60, 82–83, 203 “American Jewish Fiction,” 213 Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, 39–40, 45, 213 “The Logic of the Heart,” 62–63 Berger, David The Rebbe, the Messiah and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, 209, 214 Bhabha, Homi K The Location of Culture, 214 Bialystok, 138 Bildungsroman, 92 Bilik, Dorothy, 42 Immigrant Survivors: PostHolocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction, 214 Bilski, Emily Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn, 214 Bitul torah, 7 Bitul z’man, 6, 7 Bloom, Allan, 62 The Closing of the American Mind, 205 Bloom, Harold, 1, 5, 15, 117, 202 The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 214 Kabbalah and Criticism, 9, 10, 30, 34, 214 Musical Variations on Jewish Thought, 214 Zakhor, 4, 5, 94–95 Bradford, William, 172 Broder, Rose, 156 Buber, Martin I-thou relationship, 14–15 I and Thou, 214 Buddhism, 81 Bukiet, Melvin, 19, 181 Strange Fire, 214 Burch, C. Beth, 147 “Allegra Goodman (1967–),” 214 Cahan, Abraham, 17, 39, 142, 145 The Rise of David Levinsky, 206 The Cambridge History of American Literature, 173 Chabad, 138 Chad Gadyah, 157–158, 211 Chasidim, 70, 138–139, 209 Clayton, John J., 60, 62 Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man, 205, 214 Cohen, Arthur, 190 The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust, 108, 214 Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ix, 64 “Adaptation In and Of Saul Bellow’s ‘The Old System,’” 214 Saul Bellow’s Enigmatic Laughter, 214 Communism, 149, 150 Connelly, Sherryl, 148 “The Divine Miss S,” 214 “The Other Side of Paradise,” 215 Conversations with Saul Bellow, 55, 57, 215 Cronin, Gloria, 214, 215 “Immersions in the Postmodern: The Fiction of Allegra Goodman,” 146, 215 224 INDEX Bellow, Saul (continued) Small Planets, 61, 205, 213 See also Conversations with Saul Bellow Daf yomi, 4 Deconstruction, 112, 197 DeLillo, Don Underworld, 84, 215 Derrida, Jacques, 14, 16, 196 Descartes, Renee, 112, 189–190 Deuteronomy, 25 The Diary of Anne Frank, 122 Diaz, Junot Drown, 145, 215 Dibrey ha-yamim, 5 Dickens, Charles Bleak House, 215 Oliver Twist, 154–155, 215 Dickstein, Morris, ix “The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer,” 28 Double Agent: The Critic and Society, 15–16 “Fiction and Society, 1940–1970,” 215 Dinah d-malchoto Dinah, 18 Edidin, Peter “He’s a Literary Darling Looking for Dear Readers,” 202, 215 Eliot, George, 119, 147 Eliot, T.S., 100...