The Politics of Difference and the Future(s) of American Jewish Literary Studies

Recent works by Jonathan Freedman, Julian Levinson, and Anita Norich sketch a blueprint of the liminal field of American Jewish Literary Studies. These three authors provide different answers to the oft-asked question of what specifically is "Jewish" about Jewish American literature. Nonetheless, each author provides a meditation on the politics and power of Jewish difference in America and points to the future(s) of their field.