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Author Aarons, Victoria.

Title What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PS647.J4 A15 2005    Available  ---
Description 181 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway? -- Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant -- Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness -- Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem" -- The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz -- The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.
Subject American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Jewish authors.
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Jews.
United States.
Intellectual life.
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Judaism and literature -- United States.
Judaism and literature.
Judaism in literature.
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Jews in literature.
ISBN 0874139015 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780874139013