Janet Handler Burstein

Biographic Data

ID5702147
NAMEJanet Handler Burstein
GIVEN NAMESJanet Handler
FAMILY NAMEBurstein
SIGNATUREBURSTEIN J H
AFFILIATIONSDrew University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX0

  • Performing Holocaust Memory

    Open AccessJanet Handler BursteinARTICLEAJS Review The Journal of the…2012References: 5

    Memory and its representations can reveal as much about a culture's sense of itself as they do about its past. Israeli critics have traced the ways in which representations of the Holocaust in their country's films reflect, among many other issues, Israeli culture's preoccupation with the construction of Israeli identity. According to one critic, the Holocaust survivor in films of the 1940s and 1950s embodied weakness and passivity: “all the trai…

  • My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White

    Janet Handler BursteinARTICLEStudies in American Jewish…2011

    Book Review| January 01 2011 My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) WhiteFurman, Andrew Janet Handler Burstein Janet Handler Burstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2011) 30: 118–119. https://doi.org/10.2307/41228670 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Janet Handler Burstein; My Los Angeles in Bl…

  • Through an American Lens

    Janet Handler Burstein, Janet BursteinARTICLEStudies in American Jewish…2010References: 2

    Research Article| January 01 2010 Through an American Lens: Dreaming Utopia in Early Israeli Cinema Janet Burstein Janet Burstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2010) 29: 26–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206130 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Janet Burstein; Through an American Lens: Dreaming Utopia in Early Israeli Cinema. Studies …

  • Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters

    Miriyam Glazer, Janet Handler Burstein et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1997

  • Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters

    S Lillian Kremer, Janet Handler BursteinARTICLEAmerican Literature1997

  • Cynthia Ozick and the Transgressions of Art

    Janet Handler BursteinARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

    W HETHER she is lecturing the literary establishment on its parochialism at the MLA convention, or pointing out to George Steiner the defects of his universalism, Cynthia Ozick's is the most provocative of contemporary Jewish-American voices. Also one of the most disquieting, for she lifts up again and again the vexed and intricate tangle of Jewish attitudes toward art that many readers would rather see so clearly. Embedded in a nonJewish cultura…