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Jewish gangsters of modern literature
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- Creator
- Rachel Rubin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252025393, 9780252025396
- OCLC
- ocm41951128
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-181) and index.
- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction : the dream of his kingdom -- Imagine you are a tiger : a new folk hero in Babel's Odessa tales -- Sordid generation : plundering ethnic culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch paunch and jowl -- Gang of little Yids : savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without money -- Business is business : the death of the gangster in Daniel Fuchs's novels of the 1930s -- Conclusion : the gangster's funeral -- Notes -- References cited -- Index
Subjects
- Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 -- Characters -- Jewish criminals.
Бабель, И. (Исаак), 1894-1940 -- Characters -- Jewish criminals.
- Ornitz, Samuel, 1890-1957. Haunch, paunch, and jowl.
- Fuchs, Daniel, 1909-1993 -- Characters -- Jewish criminals.
- Gold, Michael, 1893-1967. Jews without money.
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Jewish criminals in literature.
- American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Gangsters in literature.
- Jews in literature.