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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - MIHAI MÂNDRA, STRATEGISTS OF ASSIMILATION, BUCHAREST: THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY, NATIONAL SCIENCE AND ART FOUNDATION, THE “GEORGE CALINESCU” LITERARY HISTORY AND THEORY INSTITUTE, 2003. STANISLAV KOLAR, SEVEN RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST IN AMERICAN FICTION, OSTRAVA: UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA AND TILIA PUBLISHERS, 2004.

Authors:  MIHAELA MUDURE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Jewish American fiction has increasingly become a matter of interest for literary scholars after 1990. The explanation of this growing focus can be found in the circumstances of literary and intellectual life in the former Communist countries. Freedom of expression and research gets limited only by funding. Jewish Studies programs have been founded in many of these countries enthusiasts and usually with international support. Paradoxically, there is a growing scholarly interest in Jewish culture in the absence of the former numerous Jewish communities that were dwindled by the Holocaust as well as by intense immigration during the Communist regime. A more or less vague sense of guilt combined with genuine curiosity about a culture that should not become a museum exibit are the psychological factors that partly explain the development of Jewish Studies in this part of the world. The result is that several Eastern European scholars, whether of Jewish extraction or not, pay increasing attention to the literature created by the most dynamic and the most influential segment of Jewish diaspora: the Jews of the United States. Situated at the intersection of Jewish Studies and American Studies, such scholarly works give authors rewarding experiences of high aesthetic quality and intense moral questioning.  
         
     
         
         
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