Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and
tradition inform post-war Canadian and American Jewish literature, A
House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such
influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai
Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin
highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish
writers, as well as placing their work in the context of the broader
traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical
theory. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to
the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and
history, as well as to specialists in these fields.