Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.

Introduction: toward a New Jewish American literary studies Victoria Aarons; Part I. Concepts: 1. 'Jewish American' or 'American Jewish': the hybrid in literary studies Berel Lang; 2. A new diaspora: Jewish American writers from across the globe Victoria Aarons; 3. Wrestling with politics: Jewish American writing from left to right (and back again) Michael Staub; 4. Israel and America in Jewish American writing Eli Lederhendler; 5. Jewish American writing and race Dean Franco; 6. Gender and feminism in contemporary Jewish American writing Jessica Lang; Part II. Contexts: 7. Rethinking postwar Jewish American writers Timothy Parrish; 8. The insistence of psychoanalysis in contemporary Jewish American fiction Willis Salomon; 9. Reimagining the past, imagining the future: myth, history, and mystery in contemporary Jewish American fiction David Brauner; 10. Women's voices: the assimilated subject and the persistence of marginalisation Catherine Morley; 11. A guide for the heretic: charting the journey off the path of tradition Avinoam Patt; Part III. 'New' Forms and Histories: 12. Rethinking literary and ethical response to the Holocaust: reading 'with Hitler in New York' Gary Weissman; 13. Jews in contemporary cinema and television Nathan Abrams; 14. Story into memoir, memoir into story: Iranian-Jewish-American writing Judie Newman; 15. Jewish-Latin American literature Darrell B. Lockhart; 16. Jewish American literary studies abroad Gustavo Sánchez Canales.