A Cultural Reading of Contemporary American Jewish Literature

The Jewish people are a people who have experienced many vicissitudes of life in history.The American Jewish writers have been always concernied about how to cherish the memory of the past and face the present when they write with the themes about the history of the people.The Jewish traditional culture ,which is gushed out and constrained at the same time in the hearts of the Jewish people,is just like a mysterious and huge force existing in all of the Jewish writer's works. This essay is trying to make a cultural reading of American Jewish literature,especially modern and contemporary novels so as to attain a comparatively objective understanding of the literature.