Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Jewish

Jewish American literature covers a broad range of genres and literary works. Some of the United States' most compelling literature centers on the American Jewish experience; some of the most acclaimed authors write from the heart of their experience as Jewish Americans. This ground-breaking work is intended to guide readers and those who advise readers in selecting fiction and nonfiction books that match specific reading interests. It is the first readers' advisory guide to Jewish American literature. Like other titles in the Genreflecting Advisory Series, the book organizes titles by...

Stephen Wade offers a guide to major writers, their key works, and influential background factors including the postmodern, the master-narrative and metafiction. The themes, issues, and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry, and drama, the author offers an informative and highly readable guide to the achievements of a key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature.

Jurek Becker is one of the most important post-war German authors. His first novel, Jacob the Liar, already has the status of a classic of post-1945 European literature about the Holocaust and has been widely translated. This timely book traces the main events in Becker's unusual personal history: his childhood experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in the concentration camps of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, his life in the GDR, and his move to the West. The author reflects both on Becker's quest for his Jewish identity as well as on his achievements in terms of narrative technique, formal...

Im Jahr 1995 hat Lufthansa Systems ihre Geschaftstatigkeit aufgenommen. Aus der ehemaligen EDV-Abteilung des Lufthansa-Konzerns hat sich ein erfolgreiches Systemshaus entwickelt, ein weltweit fuhrender IT-Dienstleister in der Airline- und Aviationbranche. Bestand das Produktportfolio anfangs noch aus einzelnen Applikationen aus dem engeren Umfeld der Luftfahrt und Rechenzentrumsdienstleistungen, ist daraus mittlerweile ein uberzeugendes Leistungsspektrum entstanden: von Beratungsleistungen uber die Applikationsentwicklung und -implementierung bis zum Betrieb eines Rechenzentrums. Seit...