Table of Contents:
  • Postmodernism and the Jewish literary intellectual
  • Harold Bloom; or, the sage of New Haven
  • Gershom Scholem and literary criticism
  • The struggle for historicity : Cynthia Ozick's fiction
  • Lost and found : Hollander, Mandelbaum, and the poetry of exile
  • Judaism and the rhetoric of authority : George Steiner's textual homeland
  • Walter Benjamin, messianism, and Marxism
  • Nostalgia and futurity : Jewish literature in transition.