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Contemporary British‐Jewish Writing: From Apology to Attitude
Author(s) -
Gilbert Ruth
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00521.x
Subject(s) - judaism , memoir , journalism , ambiguity , literature , visibility , criticism , history , variety (cybernetics) , art , sociology , media studies , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , computer science , geography , artificial intelligence , meteorology
This article surveys contemporary British‐Jewish writing. It looks at a variety of texts to argue that British‐Jewish writing is gaining a new visibility, momentum and confidence. In fiction, memoirs, criticism and journalism, writers are addressing increasingly challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty‐first century, and exploring the profound ambiguity about Jews that can be traced back throughout the history of Anglo‐Jewry.