TY - BOOK AU - Kerbel, Sorrel [ed.] TI - The routledge encyclopedia of jewish writers of the twentieth century SN - 9780415876414 U1 - 809.88924 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Jewish literature -- Bio-bibliography N2 - This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading. ER -