Contemporary American-Jewish literature : critical essays. / Ed. by I. Malin.

Overviews: Solotaroff, T. Philip Roth and the Jewish moralists. Daiches, D. Breakthrough? Guttmann, A. The conversions of the Jews. Alter, R. Jewish dreams and nightmares.--Close views: Weinberg, H. The activist Norman Mailer. Pinsker, S. Sitting shiva: notes on recent American-Jewish autobiography. Schulz, M. F. Mr. Bellow's perigee; or, The lowered horizons of Mr. Sammler's planet. Dembo, L. S. Dissent and dissent: a look at Fiedler and Trilling. Friedman, M. J. Jewish mothers and sons: the expense of chutzpah. Grebstein, S. N. Bernard Malamud and the Jewish movement. Malkoff, K. The self in the modern world: Karl Shapiro's Jewish poems. Klein, M. Further notes on the dereliction of culture: Edward Lewis Wallant and Bruce Jay Friedman. Gittleman, E. Dybbukianism: the meaning of method in Singer's short stories.--Bryer, J. R. American-Jewish literature: a selective bibliography (p. [270]-300)