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Paperback The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea Book
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ISBN: 0807896705

ISBN13: 9780807896709

The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

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Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, Henry Roth, Johanna Kaplan, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow formed a new poetics" to articulate a modern version of the myth and...

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