Table Of Contents:
Preface 9(8)

Introduction: Erasing and Embracing the Past: America and Its Jewish Writers--Men and Women 17(31)

BEN SIEGEL

"In Life I Am Not Free": The Writer Cynthia Ozick and Her Jewish Obligations 48(32)

SUSANNE KLINGENSTEIN

"Daughters of Rafugees of the Ongoing-Universal-Endless-Upheaval": Anne Roiphe and the Quest for Narrative Power in Kewish American Women's Fiction 80(17)

MIRIYAM GLAZER

Anne Roiphe: Finding Her America 112(14)

JAY L. HALIO

Responding to an Story: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Leslea Newman, and Francine Prose 112(14)

VICTORIA AARONS

Erica Jong: Becoming a Jewish Writer 112(14)

CHARLOTTE TEMPLIN

The "Pin with to Stick Yourself": The Holocaust in Jewish American Women's Writing 141(19)

SARA R. HOROWITZ

Norma Rosen: An American Literary Response to the Holocuast 160(15)

S. LILLIAN KREMER

Resisting the Melting Pot: The Jewish Back-Story in the Fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz 175(19)

JAMES M. MELLARD

Adrienne Rich: "Stuck to earth" 194(15)

KAREN W. KLEIN

Kael and Farewell 209(17)

STEVEN G. KELLMAN

Wendy Wasserstein and the Crisis of (Jewish) Identity 226(21)

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD

Immersions in the Postmodern: The Fiction of Allegra Goodman 247(21)

GLORIA L. CRONIN

Writing Jewish Fiction In and Out of the Multicultural Context 268(7)

ALLEGRA GOODMAN
List of Contributors 275(3)
Index 278