Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction: Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life

SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN directs the program in Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, where she is a Professor. She is co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her most recent book, Jewish Life and American Culture (2000) explored the way American Jews negotiate the Jewish and secular pieces of their lives. Her earlier books include A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (1993), named a 1994 Honor Book by the National Jewish Book Council; and Changing Minds: Feminism in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Life (2000).

Preface • The Faces of Women: An Introductory Essay • THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MILIEU: TOWARD A FEMINIST SENSIBILITY • L. Peretz • Sholem Aleichem • Sholem Asch • Chaim Grade • Isaac Bashevis Singer • DISLOCATION AND SURVIVAL IN IMMIGRANT AMERICA • Abraham Cahan • Anzia Yezierska • Henry Roth • Tillie Olsen • THE EVOLUTION OF LITERARY TYPES: THE “JWISH MOTHER” AND THE “JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESS” • Herman Wouk • Philip Roth • REAL WOMEN: JEWISH MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS EXPLORE NEW PATHS • Bernard Malamud • Seymour Epstein • Grace Paley • Vivian Gornick • Anne Richardson Roiphe • CONTEMPORARY SOLDIER WOMEN IN A CHANGING WORLD • Gloria Goldreich • Ruth Knafo Setton • Gloria Kirchheimer • Rebecca Goldstein • Cynthia Ozick • Glossary • Suggestions for Further Reading: A Selected Bibliography • Acknowledgments