Efraim Zicher
Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust.
State University of New York Press, 1985. SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture. First printing. 0873959752 xv/235 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear, with trace of sticker removal in lower outside corner of front cover. Book is otherwise in excellent condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior.
"In a unique study of Anglo-Jewish writers in the post-war period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community from slum poverty to suburban affluence. This period is one of crucial social change in Britain. At the same time, Dr. Sicher raises serious questions about the modern writer’s cultural and ethnic identity. In this process, Dr. Sicher advances the thesis that, under the impetus of the Holocaust, the more traditional conflict between Jewish roots and assimilation has been succeeded by a reassessment of identity and morality. Dr. Sicher’s perspective on this particular period of literature is a highly original one and it should provoke creative reconsideration of other contexts and times as well."