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050 00 $aPS374.J48$bR83 2000
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100 1 $aRubin, Rachel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78007699
245 10 $aJewish gangsters of modern literature /$cRachel Rubin.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
263 $a0005
300 $axii, 189 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Reading, Writing, and the Rackets --$g1.$tImagine You Are a Tiger: A New Folk Hero in Babel's Odessa Tales --$g2.$tA Sordid Generation: Plundering Ethnic Culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch Paunch and Jowl --$g3.$tA Gang of Little Yids: Savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without Money --$g4.$tBusiness Is Business: The Death of the Gangster in Daniel Fuchs's Novels of the 1930s --$tConclusion: The Gangster's Funeral.
520 1 $a"In this study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history.".
520 8 $a"Rubin contends that these writers saw their artistic endeavors as akin to the work of their gangster doubles: outcasts and rebels "kneebreaking" their way into the literary canon while continuing to "do business" with the system.
520 8 $aIn the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to explore the fate of Jewishness in the "new worlds" of the United States and the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aJewish criminals in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005261
600 10 $aBabelʹ, I.$q(Isaak),$d1894-1940$xCharacters$xJewish criminals.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101038
600 10 $aOrnitz, Samuel,$d1890-1957.$tHaunch, paunch, and jowl.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88004630
600 10 $aFuchs, Daniel,$d1909-1993$xCharacters$xJewish criminals.
600 10 $aGold, Michael,$d1893-1967.$tJews without money.
650 0 $aGangsters in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005262
650 0 $aJews in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070511
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