Not One of Them in Place
(May 2001)
Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity Norman Finkelstein - Author
Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.
Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions—romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist a...(Read More)
The Ritual of New Creation
(September 1992)
Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature Norman Finkelstein - Author
In The Ritual of New Creation, Norman Finkelstein has written the best book of its kind, a book that will revolutionize not only the way Jewish intellectual life is understood in America but the way in which that grab bag of heterogeneous novels, plays, and poems that we call 'Jewish literature' will henceforth be interpreted and valued. It is not too much to call The Ritual of New Creation revolutionary, nor too much to think of it a...(Read More)
