Download or read book What is Jewish Literature? written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and published by Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores long-standing questions: What are the criteria for identifying Jewish literature? Are they language, religious affiliation of the author, religious sensibility, a distinctive Jewish imagination, or literary tradition? If the writer is the criterion, do Sholem Aleichem and Nathanael West really inhabit a shared universe? Is a text by S.Y. Agnon part of the same literary tradition as a play by Arthur Miller?