Reading Israel, Reading America by Omri Asscher - 9781503610934

Reading Israel, Reading AmericaThe Politics of Translation Between Jews\nAuthor(s): Omri Asscher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503610934, 978-1503610934\nSynopsis\nAmerican and Israeli Jews have historically clashed over the contours of Jewish identity, and their experience of modern Jewish life has been radically different. As Philip Roth put it, they are the \""heirs jointly of a drastically bifurcated legacy.\"" But what happens when the encounter between American and Israeli Jewishness takes place in literary formwhen Jewish American novels make aliyah, or when Israeli novels are imported for consumption by the diaspora?\n\n Reading Israel, Reading America explores the politics of translation as it shapes the understandings and misunderstandings of Israeli literature in the United States and American Jewish literature in Israel. Engaging in close readings of translations of iconic novels by .