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Benjamin Schreier here calls for radical rethinking of the basic ethnographic premise that has shaped Jewish American literary studies. An astute and provocative genealogy of the emergence of the field and its institutional settings, this book asks for much needed theorizing of the concepts of identity that underlie Jewish Studies more broadly. Schreier's passionate and polemical wake-up call will reinvigorate the conversation about Jewish American literature. -Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University A bold, bracing examination of Jewish American literature, this book is revelatory. Benjamin Schreier's relentlessly intelligent analysis yields a frequently polemical but impossible-to-dismiss critique that directly questions the fundamental assumptions and premises underwriting an entire field of study. -Dean Franco, Wake Forest University

A bold, bracing examination of Jewish American literature, this book is revelatory. Benjamin Schreier's relentlessly intelligent analysis yields a frequently polemical but impossible-to-dismiss critique that directly questions the fundamental assumptions and premises underwriting an entire field of study. -Dean Franco, Wake Forest University Benjamin Schreier here calls for radical rethinking of the basic ethnographic premise that has shaped Jewish American literary studies. An astute and provocative genealogy of the emergence of the field and its institutional settings, this book asks for much needed theorizing of the concepts of identity that underlie Jewish Studies more broadly. Schreier's passionate and polemical wake-up call will reinvigorate the conversation about Jewish American literature. -Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University

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Benjamin Schreier is the Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literature and The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature.

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