SUGGESTED READING
At the back of Ruth Wisse's thoughtful and provocative book, she includes a
list of 50 titles, as a reference guide for readers, including only those works
available in English.
Wisse limits the selections to one major title per author, although she
notes that she could have included additional titles as well. She groups them
chronologically, and includes a small number of memoirs.
The list is limited to Ashkenazic literature, with which she is most famil-
iar, she explains. About the Sephardic side of modern literature, she says, "I
think it is just beginning to emerge to its full bloom."
Among the books she includes from mid-century to the present are Chaim
Grade's The Yeshiva, Yehuda Arnichai's Not of This Time, Bernard Malamud's
The Magic Barrel, Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet, Cynthia Ozick's The
Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories, Amos Oz's The Hill of Evil Counsel and Philip
Roth's American Pastoral. Jewish reading groups might want to work their
way down her list.
Wisse also says that she reads the young generation of Jewish writers —
who aren't included here — "with great pleasure. It seems to me that Jewish
life is in the process of being written. It's changing all the time. It's hard to
predict what the next phase will bring. There's no question that a Jewish lit-
erature will continue to be heard."
Her suggestions are as follows:
FROM MODERN
TO MODERNIST
LITERATURE
• ivIendele Moykher-
Sforim, The Mare.
Yiddish/Hebrew
(1873-1909)
• Sholem Aleichem,
Tevye the Dairyman.
Yiddish (1895-1914)
• Franz Kafka., The
Trial. German (1914,
1925)
• Abraham Callan, The
Rise of David Levinsky.
English/American
(1917)
• David Bergelson,
Descent. Yiddish
(1920)
• Yosef Haim Brenner,
Breakdown and
Bereavement. Hebrew
X1920)
• Micah Yosef
Berdichevsky, Miriam.
Hebrew (1921)
German (1930)
• Sholem Asch, Three
Cities. Yiddish (1929-
1931)
• Yehuda Arnichai, Not
of This Time, Not of
This Place. Hebrew
(1963)
• Piotr Rawicz, Blood
from the Sky. French
(1961)
• Chaim Grade, The
Yeshiva. Yiddish
(1967-1968)
• Henryk Grynberg,
The Victory. Polish
(1969)
• Haim Hazaz, Gates
of Bronze. Hebrew
(1924-1968)
• Bruno Schulz, The
Street of Crocodiles.
Polish (1934)
• Chava Rosenfarb,
The Tree ofLift.
Yiddish (1972)
• Albert Cohen, Belle
du seigneur. French
(1968)
• Henry Roth, Call It
Sleep.
English/American
(1934)
• Aharon Appelfeld,
Badenheim 1939
Hebrew (1974)
• Shulamith Hareven,
City of Many Days.
Hebrew (1972)
• Nadezhda
Mandelstarn, Hope
Against Hope. Russian
(1970)
JEWISH
LITERATURE OF
THE '30S
• Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Satan in Garay.
Yiddish (1935)
• Israel Joshua Singer,
The Brothers Ashkenazi.
Yiddish (1936)
• Esther Kreitman,
Deborah. Yiddish
(1936)
• Jacob Glarstein,
Homecoming at
Twilight. Yiddish
(1938)
• Isaac Babel, Red
Cavalry. Russian
(1926)
• Der Nister (Pinhas
Kahanovitch), The
Family Mashber.
Yiddish (1939, 1943)
• Moyshe Kulbak,
Zebnenyaner. Yiddish
(1928)
• Israel Ration, The
Street. Yiddish (1928)
• Avigdor Hameiri,
The Great Madness.
Hebrew (1930)
• Joseph Roth, Job.
• S.Y. Agnon, A Guest
for the Night. Hebrew
(1939)
LITERATURE OF
THE HOLOCAUST
• Anne Frank, Diary of
Anne Frank. (Dutch
(1942-1944, 1947)
• Primo Levi, if This Is
a Man. Italian (1946)
-
• The wartime diaries of
Etty Hillesum, Moshe
Flinker, Abraham
Lewin, Zelig
Kalmanovitch, Chaim
Kaplan, Yoitz:chak
Katzenelson, Janusz
Korchak, Herman Kruk,
Emanuel Ringelblum,
Hannah Senesh, and
others, occupy a privi-
leged place as literary
testimony in this section
ofJewish literature.
JEWISH
LITERATURE OF
MID-CENTURY
• Arthur Koestler,
Thieves in the Night.
English/British (1945)
• Abraham Moses
Klein, The Second
Scroll.
English/Canadian
(1951)
• Albert Memmi, Pillar
of Salt. French (1953)
• Bernard Malamud,
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• Yaakov Shabrai, Past
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• Cynthia Ozick, The
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