Philip Roth's Nostalgia for the Yiddishkayt and the New Deal Idealisms in The Plot Against America
This essay reads Philip Roth's The Plot Against America as testifying to the novelist's reengagement with and recovery of his essential Jewish racial identity as well as his re-vision of America as the promised land for its Jews. Situating the complex cultural politics of yiddishkayt in the matrix of the New Deal idealism of the Rooseveltian era, it addresses the novelist's engagement with American democracy that has safeguarded the Jews and other immigrants from being persecuted.
The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature
Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer 1. Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer 2. Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel 3. The East European immigrants Priscilla Wald 4. Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies 5. Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz 6. Multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher 7. Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber 8. Jewish American poetry Maeera Shreiber 9. Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald 10. Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse 11. The Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick 12. Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar 13. Contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky 14. Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer.
THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS
This important reference collection examines the origins and evolution of modern big business, the forms it has taken in the world's leading economies (the United States, Japan, Germany and Britain), its implications for business administration, and its consequences for the relationship between ownership and management. Its emphasis is on the organization and rationale of big business from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In practice, large companies have played a critical role in the development of all capitalist societies, and the various essays in this collection will assess that role. At the same time, however, it includes material which tries to explain why the corporate form has grown so important (â€˜internalizingâ€™ many functions and transactions that might have been carried on by individual agents in the market place), and whether the emergence of large scale companies was inevitable, or simply the outcome of an institutional struggle based on power rather than efficiency.