Benjamin Schreier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1233380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Schreier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreier |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9693-3053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Gets to Talk When “WE” Talk about Israel
Occasioned by a recent article by Jill Jacobs criticizing the underrepresentation of women in American Jewish debate about Israel and by a recently implemented policy by the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) requiring gender diversity on panels at the association’s annual conference, this article explores the space where knowledge production, rhetorics of inclusivity, and disciplinary organization intersect: Despite its policies of inclusion, …
Prolegomenon for a Theory of the Palestinian American Novel
Though Palestine—as place, national aspiration, conflict, refugee crisis, political-cultural cause—stands at the institutional origin of the fields of Arab American literary study and Arab American studies more generally, Palestinian American literature itself has mostly not yet become a discrete object of disciplinary study. Palestinian American authors have not been ignored, but scholarly analysis of their work often proceeds under the authorit…
The History of Jewish American Literary History
This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly …
The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
The Impossible Jew
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a h…
Why It's Impossible to Teach Portnoy's Complaint
Here's a mostly useless understatement: Portnoy's Complaint is a really interesting book. The novel's only two scenes, really, are a psychoanalyst's couch and an analysand's neither entirely coherent nor entirely chronological memories, themselves overrun by rage, resentment, bitterness, longing, regret, and desire. Its Oedipal narrative roller coaster is bookended by the Diasporic pre-Oedipal mother-awe with which the novel begins and the post-O…
From Continuity to Contiguity
Miron's is a failed, brilliant book. On the one hand, at well over five hundred pages (with notes), it comes across as a data dump, perhaps, before anything else, the occasionally bitter, at times frantic, and often unedited efforts of a monumental scholar to make sure he's been understood (and to settle some old scores). On the other hand, anyone who thinks at all about Jewish literature, anyone dedicated at all to theorizing this category we to…
New York Intellectual/Neocon/Jewish; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Ruth Wisse
The following is a much-shortened adaptation—a sample—of a much larger project, a polemic, on the New York intellectuals: specifically on how we can (or should) talk about them, given a critical concern with Jewish identity and identification. There's a lot that should be here that's not, most notably careful consideration of the writings of the New York critics that form the context of my broadsides; for that I apologize, but I'm hoping those br…
Klezmer America
Book Review| January 01 2011 Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, ModernityFreedman, Jonathan Benjamin Schreier Benjamin Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2011) 30: 107–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/41228667 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Benjamin Schreier; Klezmer America: …
Recovering “Yiddishland”
Book Review| January 01 2008 Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American LiteratureBachman, Merle L. Benjamin Schreier Benjamin Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2008) 27: 106–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ben…
The History of Jewish American Literary History
This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly …
Recovering “Yiddishland”
Book Review| January 01 2008 Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American LiteratureBachman, Merle L. Benjamin Schreier Benjamin Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2008) 27: 106–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ben…
Klezmer America
Book Review| January 01 2011 Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, ModernityFreedman, Jonathan Benjamin Schreier Benjamin Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2011) 30: 107–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/41228667 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Benjamin Schreier; Klezmer America: …
New York Intellectual/Neocon/Jewish; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Ruth Wisse
The following is a much-shortened adaptation—a sample—of a much larger project, a polemic, on the New York intellectuals: specifically on how we can (or should) talk about them, given a critical concern with Jewish identity and identification. There's a lot that should be here that's not, most notably careful consideration of the writings of the New York critics that form the context of my broadsides; for that I apologize, but I'm hoping those br…
Why It's Impossible to Teach Portnoy's Complaint
Here's a mostly useless understatement: Portnoy's Complaint is a really interesting book. The novel's only two scenes, really, are a psychoanalyst's couch and an analysand's neither entirely coherent nor entirely chronological memories, themselves overrun by rage, resentment, bitterness, longing, regret, and desire. Its Oedipal narrative roller coaster is bookended by the Diasporic pre-Oedipal mother-awe with which the novel begins and the post-O…
From Continuity to Contiguity
Miron's is a failed, brilliant book. On the one hand, at well over five hundred pages (with notes), it comes across as a data dump, perhaps, before anything else, the occasionally bitter, at times frantic, and often unedited efforts of a monumental scholar to make sure he's been understood (and to settle some old scores). On the other hand, anyone who thinks at all about Jewish literature, anyone dedicated at all to theorizing this category we to…
The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a h…
The Impossible Jew
The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons
The History of Jewish American Literary History
This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly …
Prolegomenon for a Theory of the Palestinian American Novel
Though Palestine—as place, national aspiration, conflict, refugee crisis, political-cultural cause—stands at the institutional origin of the fields of Arab American literary study and Arab American studies more generally, Palestinian American literature itself has mostly not yet become a discrete object of disciplinary study. Palestinian American authors have not been ignored, but scholarly analysis of their work often proceeds under the authorit…
Who Gets to Talk When “WE” Talk about Israel
Occasioned by a recent article by Jill Jacobs criticizing the underrepresentation of women in American Jewish debate about Israel and by a recently implemented policy by the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) requiring gender diversity on panels at the association’s annual conference, this article explores the space where knowledge production, rhetorics of inclusivity, and disciplinary organization intersect: Despite its policies of inclusion, …
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