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255 Abraham, 132, 133 Abraham, Pearl, 2, 9, 11, 18, 20, 21, 28, 169, 191–194, 197 absent memory, 82 Aciman, Andre, 210 Acker, Kathy, 58 Adler, Rachel, 48, 49 Adorno, Theodor, 84 The Adventures of Augie March (Bellow), 105 affiliation vs. filiation, 192 After (Bukiet), 57, 58–59, 65 “After the Law” (Stern), 125 “The Age of the World View” (Heidegger), 56 Agosin, Marjorie, 204, 210 agrarian tradition, 52n13 agrarianism, 38 Albert, Elisa, 10 Aleichem, Sholem, 109n6, 113, 114, 121, 158 Alternative Public World theory, 72 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon), 97, 101–102, 104, 105–106, 158, 238 American culture vs. East Coast urban culture, 234 American identity, 188, 189 American Jewish literature: See Jewish American literature “American Jewish Writing, Act II” (Wisse), 11n2 American Magazine, 33 American Pastoral (Roth, Philip), 164 Ames, Jonathan, 5 Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy (Cowan), 157 Antin, Mary, 156 anti-Semitism, 39, 45, 52, 53n14, 83, 120, 146, 209 anxiety of influence theory, 181 Anzaldua, Gloria, 188–189 Archdeacon, Thomas J., 156 artificial Jews, 128 Asch, Sholem, 156 Ashkenazi descent, 203 Ashkenazi dominance, 204 Ashkenazi Jews vs. Sephardic Jews, 209 Ashkenazi literature, 205 assimilated Jews, 33, 129 assimilation, 154, 165n8, 192; cultural, 34; vs. ethnic definition, 34; in the South, 38 ausbrecher (escape artist), 102, 104, 105 Auschwitz, 6, 8, 64, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 82, 84, 86, 87, 148 Auschwitz survivors, 69 authoritarian discourses, 189 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 7, 83 Bakhtinian dialogism, 98 Index 256 Index Bukiet, Melvin Jules, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 57, 58–59, 61, 63–66, 140, 153, 160, 191 Burstein, Janet Handler, 4, 12n5, 127 Cahan, Abraham, 5, 156, 181 Calkins, Dick, 227 Call it Sleep (Roth), 219 “The Call of the Wall” (Katchor), 240–241 Canin, Ethan, 10 canon of Jewish American literature, 8, 11–12n2, 34, 164n3, 165n15, 169 Cantor, Aviva, 23 The Cardboard Valise (Katchor), 224, 232, 234 Caruth, Cathy, 144 Catskills, 74, 126, 127, 128, 135 Ceci Rubin stories, 182–185 Chabon, Michael, 107, 108, 153, 158, 160, 179, 219, 238 Chametzky, Jules, 6, 156, 157 Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay (Katchor), 224 A Checkroom Romance (Katchor and Mulcahy), 224 Chelm (fictional stetl): characters in, 114; creation myths, 118; death of, 122, 133; Holocaust in, 116, 119; justice in, 115–116; life in, 99; logic in, 121, 123n7; reality in, 99, 117; vs. Trachimbod (fictional shtetl), 106, 107, 121; wisdom in, 114; word substitution, 117, 118 Chelm legend, 106, 109n6, 113 Cheyette, B., 191 children, 40, 43, 53n18; of assimilated Jews, 129; of Holocaust survivors, 8, 70, 81, 154 Children of Job (Berger), 4 The Chosen (Potok), 162 Christmas, 47 chronotype, 84 Cintiq (digital hardware), 232 Clark, Kenneth, 171 balebaoste (maid/housekeeper), 20 Barry, Lynda, 231 Baudelaire, Charles, 131 Bauman, Zygmunt, 55, 56 The Beauty Supply District (Katchor), 224 Beckett, Samuel, 73 bedtime stories about Auschwitz, 70 Behlman, Lee, 9 Bellow, Malamud, and Roth, 156 Bellow, Saul, 2, 3, 5, 105, 121, 130, 131, 132, 133, 153, 154, 227 Bender, Aimee, 10 Ben-Yoseph, Miriam, 212 Bergen-Belsen, 82 Berger, Alan, 4, 6, 87, 155 Bernard-Donals, Michael, 143 Bezmozgis, David, 10 Bhabha, Homi, 189, 191 Biale, David, 190 Black, David, 10 Blanchot, Maurice, 132 Blegvad, Peter, 239 blending, 36 blind faith, 62 Bloom, Amy, 10 Bloom, Harold, 181 body: vs. needs and desire, 170; physicality of, 171, 173, 176; Ruth denial of, 172 body focus, 22–25 Borderlands/LaFrontera: The New Mestiza (Anzaldua), 188 borders theory, 189, 193; See also postcolonial theory Borowksi, Tadeusz, 55, 79 Bourne, Randolph, 188 Bread Givers (Yezierska), 18 brit milah (ritual circumcision), 20 Brogan, Kathleen, 93n33 Browne, Leslie, 33 Brownstein, Gabriel, 10 Buck Rogers (comic character), 227 Budnitz, Judy, 10 [18.206.12.31] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:02 GMT) Index 257 Clowes, Daniel, 102 Cohen, Arthur, 155 Cohen, Joshua, 10 Cohen, Robert, 5, 10 comic art: current state of, 239; and links to American identity, 225; and other mediums, 238 comic books, 74; characters in, 227; Jewish authors, 101, 104; superhero, 98, 102, 103, 107, 108; See also picturestories comics as literature, 239 community vs. exile, 48 “The Complex Fate of the Jewish Author” (Dickstein), 180 Condé Nast, 231 Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women’s Writing (Rubin), 5 construction and deconstruction, 117 consumerism, psychology, and eating disorders, 169–170 Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma (Furman ), 5, 155 “Conversations with My Father” (Goldin), 204 The Counterlife (Roth), 164, 217...