Leah Garrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Garrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrett |
| SIGNATURE | GARRETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories
Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossings, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring. Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic aftereffects of rape, murder…
Shazoom. Vas ist das Shazoom?” Mad Magazine and postwar Jewish America
Mad Magazine, founded in 1952 by a group of Jewish New Yorkers, is the most important and popular humour magazine in the United States. This essay charts the many ways that Mad spoke about changes occurring in postwar Jewish American life by focusing on the first 10 years of Mad, as this was the era when the magazine spoke with the most intensely Jewish poetics. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish that the magazine was in fact part of a postwar,…
Joseph Heller's Jewish War Novel Catch-22
Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) is considered one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. It was a massive bestseller that sold over 10 million copies, and it introduced a new phrase into the English language for an unsolvable conundrum or paradox. Catch-22 was groundbreaking because it was the first broadly successful American novel that offered a post-modern, satirical take on the Second World War. Ostensibly the novel h…
Dazed and Confused
Research Article| January 01 2011 Dazed and Confused: Lamed Shapiro's American Stories Leah Garrett Leah Garrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2011) 30: 47–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/41228662 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leah Garrett; Dazed and Confused: Lamed Shapiro's American Stories. Studies in American Jewish Literature (1…
Just One of the Goys
In his seminal essay “Jewish-Americans, Go Home” (1964), Leslie Fiedler attacked postwar Jewish writing and its widespread use of what he controversially labeled “crypto-Jewish characters,” who are in habit, speech, and condition of life typically Jewish-American, but who are presented as something else—general-American say, as in Death of a Salesman
Journeys beyond the Pale
Sabotaging the Text
he line of cultural evolution of the Tannhäuser myth is particularly interesting because of the prominent role played by Richard Wagner in the transmission: it shows how even the work of an antisemite can become a tool for Jewish cultural cohesion. In the following article, I will document the evolution and metamorphosis of the myth of Tannhäuser as it came into contact with Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), and I. L. Peretz …
Sabotaging the Text
he line of cultural evolution of the Tannhäuser myth is particularly interesting because of the prominent role played by Richard Wagner in the transmission: it shows how even the work of an antisemite can become a tool for Jewish cultural cohesion. In the following article, I will document the evolution and metamorphosis of the myth of Tannhäuser as it came into contact with Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), and I. L. Peretz …
Trains and Train Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature
As the apocryphal story goes, in the 1840s when Tsar Nicholas I decided to develop the railroad in Russia, he placed his hand on a map and traced the line it would follow along the edge of his hand. However, the line he drew inadvertently included the ridge of his thumb. The tale says that, when the train system was built, it included that ridge. The tale is an unlikely one, but it points to how the railroad of Russia was a tsarist railroad. It w…
Joseph Heller's Jewish War Novel Catch-22
Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) is considered one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. It was a massive bestseller that sold over 10 million copies, and it introduced a new phrase into the English language for an unsolvable conundrum or paradox. Catch-22 was groundbreaking because it was the first broadly successful American novel that offered a post-modern, satirical take on the Second World War. Ostensibly the novel h…
Just One of the Goys
In his seminal essay “Jewish-Americans, Go Home” (1964), Leslie Fiedler attacked postwar Jewish writing and its widespread use of what he controversially labeled “crypto-Jewish characters,” who are in habit, speech, and condition of life typically Jewish-American, but who are presented as something else—general-American say, as in Death of a Salesman
Trains and Train Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature
As the apocryphal story goes, in the 1840s when Tsar Nicholas I decided to develop the railroad in Russia, he placed his hand on a map and traced the line it would follow along the edge of his hand. However, the line he drew inadvertently included the ridge of his thumb. The tale says that, when the train system was built, it included that ridge. The tale is an unlikely one, but it points to how the railroad of Russia was a tsarist railroad. It w…
Trains and Train Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature
As the apocryphal story goes, in the 1840s when Tsar Nicholas I decided to develop the railroad in Russia, he placed his hand on a map and traced the line it would follow along the edge of his hand. However, the line he drew inadvertently included the ridge of his thumb. The tale says that, when the train system was built, it included that ridge. The tale is an unlikely one, but it points to how the railroad of Russia was a tsarist railroad. It w…
Sabotaging the Text
he line of cultural evolution of the Tannhäuser myth is particularly interesting because of the prominent role played by Richard Wagner in the transmission: it shows how even the work of an antisemite can become a tool for Jewish cultural cohesion. In the following article, I will document the evolution and metamorphosis of the myth of Tannhäuser as it came into contact with Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), and I. L. Peretz …
Sabotaging the Text
he line of cultural evolution of the Tannhäuser myth is particularly interesting because of the prominent role played by Richard Wagner in the transmission: it shows how even the work of an antisemite can become a tool for Jewish cultural cohesion. In the following article, I will document the evolution and metamorphosis of the myth of Tannhäuser as it came into contact with Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), and I. L. Peretz …
Journeys beyond the Pale
Just One of the Goys
In his seminal essay “Jewish-Americans, Go Home” (1964), Leslie Fiedler attacked postwar Jewish writing and its widespread use of what he controversially labeled “crypto-Jewish characters,” who are in habit, speech, and condition of life typically Jewish-American, but who are presented as something else—general-American say, as in Death of a Salesman
Dazed and Confused
Research Article| January 01 2011 Dazed and Confused: Lamed Shapiro's American Stories Leah Garrett Leah Garrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2011) 30: 47–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/41228662 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leah Garrett; Dazed and Confused: Lamed Shapiro's American Stories. Studies in American Jewish Literature (1…
Joseph Heller's Jewish War Novel Catch-22
Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) is considered one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. It was a massive bestseller that sold over 10 million copies, and it introduced a new phrase into the English language for an unsolvable conundrum or paradox. Catch-22 was groundbreaking because it was the first broadly successful American novel that offered a post-modern, satirical take on the Second World War. Ostensibly the novel h…
Shazoom. Vas ist das Shazoom?” Mad Magazine and postwar Jewish America
Mad Magazine, founded in 1952 by a group of Jewish New Yorkers, is the most important and popular humour magazine in the United States. This essay charts the many ways that Mad spoke about changes occurring in postwar Jewish American life by focusing on the first 10 years of Mad, as this was the era when the magazine spoke with the most intensely Jewish poetics. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish that the magazine was in fact part of a postwar,…
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories
Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) was the author of groundbreaking and controversial short stories, novellas, and essays. Himself a tragic figure, Shapiro led a life marked by frequent ocean crossings, alcoholism, and failed ventures, yet his writings are models of precision, psychological insight, and daring. Shapiro focuses intently on the nature of violence: the mob violence of pogroms committed against Jews; the traumatic aftereffects of rape, murder…
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