ARAB-AMERICAN LITERATURE page of links
Books Which Document Recent Jewish American Literature USC library
Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology book review
Jewish American Literature Reading List Depauw
Jewish American Writers and Jewish American Women Writers a listing
JEWS, HEBRAICA page of links
Yiddish Literature short intro
Yiddish Words Found in English

Alcalay, Ammiel - Small Press Traffic short article
Alcalay, Ammiel - Short Bio
Allen, Woody filmography, books and other prose
Allen, Woody short article and links
Allen, Woody - funny quotes
Allen, Woody - factsheet
Apple, Max, Pays Tribute to His Grandfather
Apple, Max, An Interview With
Apple, Max - homepage at Rice University
Arendt, Hannah - papers at the Library of Congress
Arendt, Hannah - Jewish Virtual Library article on her, selected works, bibliography
Arendt, Hannah - An Introduction intro to the book by John McGowan
Bell, Daniel - New York Intellectuals basic info
Bell, Daniel - Arguing the World PBS special on NY intellectuals, one of whom is Bell
Bell, Daniel - The End of Ideology chapter 13
Bellow, Saul - Nobel Prize 1976
Bellow, Saul - Critical essay
Bellow, Saul - Perspectives in American Literature
Bellow, Saul (1915- ) bio and quotes
Bellow, Saul - Well-known Canadians bio and list of books
Bellow, Saul: Jewish American Literature short bio and books by him
Bellow, Saul - Nobel bio
Bellow - Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, and Abe Ravelstein article by Robert Fulford
Benjamin - Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate "a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries"
Benjamin, Walter - "Benjamin, the Televisual and the "Fascistic Subject"" article by Allen Meek
Benjamin, Walter - "Clockwork Orange and the Aestheicization of Violence"
Benjamin, Walter - "The Dialectics of Allegoresis: Historical Materialism in Benjamin's Illuminations
Benjamin, Walter - "Hashish in Berlin: An Introduction to Walter Benjamin's Uncompleted Work on Hashish"
Benjamin, Walter - "Illuminating: How Benjamin the Mystical Philosopher Becomes Benjamin the Historical Materialist"
Benjamin, Walter - reflections criticism
Birstein, Ann
Broner, E.M. - short bio
Cahan, Abraham - short bio
Cahan, Abraham - Jewish Virtual Library
Cahan, Abraham (1860-1951) class guide to study of Cahan
Cahan, Abraham short bio
Cahan, Abraham - The Russian Jew in America
Cahan, Abraham - A Ghetto Wedding
Castro, Michael - Logging Country
Castro, Michael - The Man Who Looked Into Coltrane's Horn
Cowan, Paul - Interview with the director
Doctorow, E.L. - New York State Author bio, excerpts, info and photo
Doctorow, E.L. - Criticism Tricksters in Doctorow and Kingston, by Jonna Mackin
Doctorow, E.L. - Interview by George Plimpton Salon Magazine
Doctorow, E.L. - Author biography from Random House
Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime musical adaptation of his novel
Doctorow, E.L. - Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks reviews
Doctorow, E.L. - Interview by Michael Wutz
Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime Named One of 100 Best English-language Novels of the Century by Modern Library
Doctorow, E.L. - Quotes
Doctorow, E.L., Conversations With
Elkin, Stanley links and book summaries
Elkin, Stanley - Interview by Peter Bailey
Elkin, Stanley - Criticism "Reading Stanley Elkin," by Rick Moody
Elkin, Stanley - Criticism "Reading Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser," by William Gass
Elkin, Stanley - Obituary
Elkin, Stanley - review The Magic Kingdom reviewed
Elkin, Stanley - St. Louis Walk of Fame short bio
Elkin, Stanley - quotes from The Living End
Fiedler, Leslie - Encyclopedia entry for him
Fiedler, Leslie - Vita and photo official university page
Fiedler, Leslie and American Culture book of criticism
Fiedler, Leslie - "Too Good to be True" book about him
Fiedler, Leslie Center for Book Culture
Gold, Herbert - Herbert Gold on the beatniks excerpt
Gold - Herbert Gold's Bibliography
Gold, Herbert - Remembers Alan Ginsberg article
Gold, Herbert - Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti book review
Gold, Herbert - The Last Poet about Ginsberg
Gold, Herbert - Haiti Climbing From Her Knees article by Gold
Gold, Herbert - Haiti Becomes Haiti Again article by Gold
Gold, Herbert - criticism Belief and Craft, by Larry Smith
Gold, Michael - There seem to be several authors of this name; I have listed below a few of the more interesting links:
Gold, Michael - Interview Bookwire speaks with Rabbi Gold
Gold, Michael - Meet Rabbi Michael Gold
Gold, Michael (1894-1967)
Gold, Michael - "Gertrude Stein: A Literary Idiot"
Goldstein, Rebecca - short bio Houghton Mifflin
Goldstein, Rebecca - criticism The Mind-Body Problem
Goldstein, Rebecca - Portrait What's Luck Got to Do With It?
Goldstein, Rebecca - excerpt from The Mind-Body Problem
Goldstein, Rebecca - the imp of metaphysics
Goodman, Allegra - homepage
Goodman, Allegra - in her own words
Goodman, Allegra - Retrospective short story
Goodman, Allegra - interview by Powell Books
Goodman, Allegra - excerpt from Paradise Park
Goodman, Allegra - Paradise Park book review
Goodman, Allegra - interview about Paradise Park
Goodman, James (historian Stories of Scottsboro)
Goodman, James critique of his style
Goodman, James his university homepage
Greenberg, Clement
Greenberg, Clement short bio and links to essays on him
Greenberg, Clement, by Tim Hilton a memory of Greenberg
Greenberg, Clement - Greenberg Symposia short critique and links to many articles
Greenberg, Clement - Autonomies of Art, by audio clip
Greenberg, Clement - book review of a biography of Greenberg
Greenberg, Clement - interview about Greenberg
Heller, Joseph
Heller, Joseph excerpt from Catch-22, short bio, and links
Heller, Joseph - A Brief Introduction from Univ. of S. Carolina
Heller, Joseph - More on from the archives of the NY Times
Heller, Joseph - links Internet Resources
Heller, Joseph - Closing Time transcripts of radio interview
Heller, Joseph - Criticism review of Catch-22
Heller, Joseph - biography and chapter by chapter summary of Catch-22
Heller, Joseph - bio and list of works
Heller, Joseph - obituary NY Times
Heller, Joseph - a brief tribute from the World Socialist Web Site
Heller, Joseph - obituary The Guardian
Heller, Joseph - editorial The Nation
Helprin, Mark
Helprin, Mark - listserv for those interested in his works
Helprin, Mark - article "Against the dehumanizing of art"
Helprin, Mark - article "Phony War" in National Review
Helprin, Mark - about him article
Howe, Irving
Howe, Irving - Portrait from The New York Intellectuals, by Alan Wald
Howe, Irving - NY Intellectual short bio and quote
Howe, Irving - Socialist, Critic, Jew short intro
Howe, Irving - short bio
Howe, Irving - "Writing and the Holocaust"
Howe, Irving - "A Captive Not Yet Freed"
Howe, Irving - The Socialist Who Loved Keats
Kaufman, Bob [Robert Garnell - "beat" poet]
Kaufman, Bob - born 1925 in New Orleans
Kaufman, Bob - short bio and poems The Beat Page
Kaufman, Bob - essay on him "Bob Kaufman: Jazz Poet of the Streets"
Kaufman, Bob - photo
Kaufman, Bob - photo and memories "in memory of beat poet Bob Kaufman"
Kaufman, Bob - short bio
Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie
Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie - review short review of The Tribe of Dina among others
Kazin, Alfred
Kazin, Alfred - interview about keeping a journal
Kazin, Alfred - obituary from PBS
Kazin, Alfred - reviews several critics speak of Kazin
Kazin, Alfred - Champion of American Literature from the World Socialist Web Site
Kazin, Alfred - review God and the American Writer
Kirchheimer, Gloria L.
Kirchheimer, Gloria - review "Goodbye, Evil Eye"
Klepfisz, Irena
Klepfisz, Irena - article "On International Women's Day, A Call to End Israel's Occupation"
Klepfisz, Irena - article "Israel Isn't David... It's Goliath"
Klepfisz, Irena - review "Dreams of an Insomniac"
Klepfisz, Irena - Woman of Valor interview
Klepfisz, Irena - Politics of snails
Klepfisz, Irena - poetry reading MP3 file
Kosinski, Jerzy
Kosinksi, Jerzy - biography
Kosinksi, Jerzy - Grand Calumniator of Poland
Kosinski, Jerzy - review of biography
Kosinski, Jerzy - just who was this crazy guy
Kosinski, Jerzy - homepage
Kosinski, Jerzy - quotations
Kosinski, Jerzy - quote
Kristol, Irving
Kristol, Irving - article "Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship"
Kristol, Irving - NY Intellectuals from PBS
Kristol, Irving - article "Keeping Up With Ourselves"
Kristol, Irving - article "Skepticism, Meliorism, and the Public Interest"
Kristol, Irving - article "American Conservatism 1945-1995"
Kristol, Irving - excerpts from his book, Neo-Conservatism
Kristol, Irving - short bio
Leavitt, David
Leavitt, David - archives from NY Times
Leavitt, David - criticism "David Leavitt and the Etiological Maternal Body" by Mun-Hou Lo
Leavitt, David - short bio
Leavitt, David - short bio
Leavitt, David - book review of Martin Bauman
Leavitt, David - short bio
Levy, Stephen
Levy, Stephen - review of Crypto
Malamud, Bernard
Malamud, Bernard - criticism Rabbi Ronald Sobel
Malamud, Bernard - unofficial homepage
Malamud, Bernard - short bio
Malamud, Bernard - his grave
Malamud, Bernard - criticism by Evelyn Avery
Malamud, Bernard - short bio Outline of American Literature
Malamud, Bernard - encyclopedia entry
Markfield, Wallace
Markfield, Wallace - interview Center for Book Culture
Michaels, Leonard
Michaels, Leonard - reviews several novels are covered
Michaels, Leonard - article "The Personal and the Individual"
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur - excerpt and bio
Miller - Arthur Miller Society devoted to studying the man and his work
Miller, Arthur - bio and criticism Books and Writers
Miller, Arthur - history Theatre History
Miller, Arthur - bio and criticism from CurtainUp
Miller, Arthur - bio from PBS
Miller, Arthur - criticism brief excerpt from the preface of Leonard Moss' Arthur Miller
Miller Arthur - concordance for Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur - essay by "Tragedy and the Common Man"
Miller, Arthur - audio excerpt from Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur - audio excerpt from The Crucible
Miller, Arthur - teaching guide for The Crucible
Odets, Clifford
Odets, Clifford - short bio
Odets, Clifford - criticism "Anguish of Many Colors in Paintings"
Odets, Clifford - classroom strategies
Odets, Clifford - short bio
Odets, Clifford - encyclopedia entry
Olsen, Tillie
Olsen, Tillie - Nebraska Center for Writers short bio, commentary, quotes, interview
Olsen, Tillie - GradeSaver short bio
Olsen, Tillie - Modern American Poetry her life
Olsen, Tillie - papers at Stanford short bio and highlights from her works
Olsen, Tillie - classroom strategies
Olsen, Tillie - Speaking Freely interview
Olsen, Tillie - Grinnell College short bio
Ozick, Cynthia
Ozick, Cynthia - Jewish Virtual Library bio and criticism
Ozick, Cynthia - criticism from the Complete Review
Ozick, Cynthia - criticism from Partisan Review
Ozick, Cynthia - criticism "Limning The Cannibal Galaxy: Cynthia Ozick's Moral Imagination"
Ozick, Cynthia - short bio from St. Martins press
Ozick, Cynthia - review of The Puttermesser Papers
Paley, Grace
Paley, Grace - Lit Chat short bio and interview
Paley, Grace - short bio from New York State Writers Institute
Paley, Grace - classroom strategies
Paley, Grace - Conversations with University Press of Mississippi
Paley, Grace - NY Review of Books archives
Piercy, Marge
Piercy, Marge - short bio
Piercy, Marge - homepage includes bio, reviews, resume, bibliography
Piercy, Marge - criticism The Communal Voice
Piercy, Marge - review of Woman on the Edge of Time
Podhoretz, Norman
Podhoretz, Norman - interview "The Battle Over Ideas"
Podhoretz, Norman - staff bio Hudson Institute; includes some articles by him
Podhoretz, Norman - review of Ex-Friends
Podhoretz, Norman - excerpt from Ex-Friends
Podhoretz, Norman - review "Podhoretz: the man who killed his father--twice"
Potok, Chaim
Potok, Chaim - homepage quotes, biography, book reviews, much more
Potok, Chaim - short bio from Books and Writers
Potok, Chaim - profile from Houghton Mifflin
Potok, Chaim - review of Zebra and Other Stories
Potok, Chaim - bio from GradeSaver
Potok, Chaim - conversations with from University Press of Mississippi
Rahv, Philip - NY Review of Books archives articles about him
Reyez, Ivanov - story by him "Administrative Leave"
Reznikoff, Charles
Reznikoff, Charles - photo, bio, excerpts Modern American Poetry
Reznikoff, Charles - two versions of a poem
Reznikoff, Charles - criticism "A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry"
Roffman, Rosaly De Majos
Roffman, Rosaly - poem by her "My Feet Become the Wings of a Bird I've Never Seen"
Roffman, Rosaly - some photos of her Women in the Arts
Roffman, Rosaly - poem translated by her
Roffman, Rosaly - poem by her "The Woman in Each of Us Thanks Her Muse"
Rosen, Norma
Rosen, Norma - quote The Holocaust in American Literature
Rosenberg, Harold - short bio Smithsonian
Rosenberg, Harold - NY Review of Books archive articles by and about him
Rosenfeld, Isaac
Rosenfeld, Isaac - criticism "The First Loves of Isaac Rosenfeld"
Rosenfeld, Isaac - criticism "Golden Boy" by James Atlas
Roth, Henry
Roth, Henry - short bio from Books and Writers
Roth, Henry - reading guide
Roth, Henry - criticism
Roth, Henry - letter disagreeing with criticism on Call It Sleep
Roth, Henry - papers American Jewish Historical Society
Roth, Henry - short critique bio info. varies
Roth, Henry - portrait from NY Review of Books
Roth, Philip
Roth, Philip - CNN America's Best short bio and criticism
Roth, Philip - bio, reviews, and excerpts Books and Writers
Roth, Philip - review of the Zuckerman books Salon Magazine
Roth, Philip - interesting points and links from The Guardian
Roth, Philip - NY Times Review of Books archived articles about him
Salinger, J.D.
Salinger.org news and discussions about Salinger
Salinger, J.D. - excerpt, bio, links from levity.com
Salinger, J.D. - a brief bio lots of strange facts about him
Salinger, J.D. - short bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Salinger, J.D. - opinion Yet Another Page on J.D. Salinger?
Salinger, J.D. - criticism "The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D. - synopsis of book and other material from The English Page
Schapiro, Meyer
Schapiro, Meyer - on Cezanne article and photos
Schapiro, Meyer - obituary from Columbia
Schapiro, Meyer - homage "Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject"
Schapiro, Meyer - obituary "Meyer Schapiro, Art Historian and Critic, Dies at 91"
Schulberg, Budd
Schulberg, Budd - short bio
Schulberg, Budd - short bio
Schulberg, Budd - short bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Schulberg, Budd - interview "The Making of On the Waterfront"
Schwartz, Delmore
Schwartz, Delmore - short bio "Poet Delmore Schwartz: Orpheus in Purgatory" [PBS]
Schwartz, Delmore - poems full text of 64 poems with comments
Schwartz, Delmore - encyclopedia entry
Schwartz, Delmore - quotes
Schwartz, Delmore - review "The Paradox of Precocity"
Segal, Lore
Segal, Lore - story "Other People's Houses"
Shapiro, Karl [Pulitzer]
Shapiro, Karl - short criticism and bio Nebraska Center for Writers
Shapiro, Karl - bio, chronology, bibliography, film clip, interview
Shapiro, Karl - excerpt The Wild Card
Shapiro, Karl - audio interview with Don Swaim
Shapiro, Karl - excerpt Adam and Eve
Shapiro, Karl - excerpt Elegy for a Dead Soldier
Shaw, Irwin
Shaw, Irwin - short bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Shaw, Irwin - short bio St. Martin's Press
Shaw, Irwin, short bio Brooklyn College Archives
Silverstein, Shel
Silverstein, Shel - bio and lesson plans
Silverstein, Shel - poem and website on him I Hear America Singing
Silverstein, Shel - intro, bio, literature, music Collected Information
Silverstein, Shel - obituary "Shel Silverstein, 68, Enchanting Poet for Children, Dies" - includes audio and slide show (retrospective)
Silverstein, Shel - poems
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Isaac - Nobel Prize
Singer, Isaac - short bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Singer, Isaac - 1978 Nobel Prize includes bio and speech
Singer, Isaac - vegetarianism
Singer, Isaac - bio and photo from PBS
Singer, Isaac - review The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Singer, Isaac - bio from the Jewish Virtual Library
Singer, Isaac - some quotes
Singer, Isaac - synopsis of The Family Moskat
Slesinger, Tess
Slesinger, Tess - short review of The Unpossessed
Slesinger, Tess - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Slesinger, Tess - 1945 Academy Awards Slesinger is listed
Solotaroff, Ted
Solotaroff, Ted - review of Truth Comes in Blows
Solotaroff, Ted - short bio focuses on his journalistic efforts
Sontag, Susan
Sontag, Susan - short bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Sontag, Susan - NY Review of Books archives news and review articles
Sontag, Susan - homepage bio and reviews, hosted by her publisher
Sontag, Susan - article and interview Salon Magazine
Sontag, Susan - excerpt "Fascinating Fascism"
Sontag, Susan - Interview PBS
Sontag, Susan - review NY State Writer's Institute
Sontag, Susan - interview ABC transcript and audio file
Sontag, Susan - short bio St. Martin's Press
Sontag, Susan - profile from The Guardian
Sontag, Susan - profile by Royce Carlton
Sontag, Susan - political commentary by her on Sept. 11
Stern, Steve
Stern, Steve - criticism and excerpt Lost Roads
Sultan, Stanley
Sultan, Stanley - review of Joyce's Metamorphosis
Sultan, Stanley - homepage at Clark University
Trilling, Lionel
Trilling, Lionel - encyclopedia article
Trilling, Lionel - criticism "Robert Fulford's review of two Lionel Trilling books"
Uris, Leon
Uris, Leon - bio and excerpts Books and Writers
Uris, Leon - short bio
Uris, Leon - encyclopedia article
Uris, Leon - review of Exodus
Uris, Leon - review of A God In Ruins
Uris, Leon - review of The Haj
White, Sarah Melhado
Yezierska, Anzia
Yezierska, Anzia - classroom strategies by Sally Ann Drucker
Yezierska, Anzia - criticism "Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews" by Ron Ebest
Yezierska, Anzia - criticism "Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress" by Christopher Okonkwo
Yezierska, Anzia - review of The Fat of the Land
Yezierska, Anzia - short bio from the Jewish Virtual Library
Yezierska, Anzia - short bio

ADD:
Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired your poor, your huddled masses")
Marie Syrkin (also wife to Charles Reznikoff)

NB: This website originated with information obtained from New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage, edited by Alpana Sharma Knippling. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.