Apr 12, 2011
Speaker: Prof. Faye Moskowtiz, Professor of
English at The George Washington University in Washington,
DC
Location: Washington Hebrew Congregation;
Washington, DC
Professor Faye Moskowitz as discussed the state of contemporary
Jewish American Literature. What is happening to the narrative now
that the last of the Holocaust witnesses are dying and divisive
opinions on the state of Israel rock Jewish and American societies?
Why are so many Jewish writers reaching back to a history they
never experienced personally? Should writers like Jonathan Franzen
and Peter Manseau who appropriate the Jewish experience be called
"Jewish writers," and conversely, why do so many Jewish American
writers disdain the label? Can anyone replace the generation of
giants that includes Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and
Salinger?