Jewish Culture and Jewish Identity: a Study of Characters in American Jewish Literature

This thesis makes an attempt to bring American Jewish literature into a specified frame of the cultural contact of Jewish culture with the immigrating world in general and American society in particular by studying typical American Jewish literary characters in the following novels:Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift ,Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and The Assistant ,Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Magician of Lublin ,and tries to analyze the cultural connotation of American Jewish literature by focusing on Jewish identity and cultural tradition.