“Mapping out a field is an ambitious, risky, and demanding endeavor. It is also a valuable achievement when it is carried out with the self-awareness, thoroughness, and verve that characterize Josh Lambert’s guide to American Jewish fiction. For each of the 125 entries arranged chronologically from 1867, Lambert provides just enough information about the plot, theme, style, history of publication, and suggested further readings to be both informative and evocative about each of the works.”
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Joshua Lambert
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Josh Lambert is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009), and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014). He co-edited a special issue of MELUS on the future of American Jewish literary scholarship, and his articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Cinema Journal, modernism/modernity, Contemporary Literature, and several edited collections. He received his BA and PhD in English literature from Harvard and the University of Michigan, respectively, and from 2009 to 2011 he taught as a Dorot Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. In addition to his scholarly writing, he serves as contributing editor to Tablet, speaks nationally on contemporary literature, and has published fiction and a cookbook, as well as contributing book reviews and essays to the Los Angeles Times, Haaretz, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Globe & Mail, and the Forward.
