Murray Baumgarten CV (2013)

For an updated publications list, see Worldcat

 

Projects

 

Books

The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing
An Anthology

Edited and with an Introduction by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe;
Create Space 2013.

 

Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse with co-authors Murray Baumgarten; Peter Kenez; and Bruce A Thompson, Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press. 2009.

 

 

Understanding Philip Roth with co-author Barbara Gottfried, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1990.

Expectations and Endings: Observations on Holocaust Literature (Working Papers in Holocaust Studies). Monograph edited by Professors Jeffrey Gurock and Lucjan Dobroszycki. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. 1989.

City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1982.

Carlyle: Books & Margins. Santa Cruz , CA : McHenry Library Strouse Carlyle Collection, University of California Press. 1980.

Carlyle and His Era. Santa Cruz, CA : McHenry Library Strouse Carlyle Collection, University of California , Santa Cruz . 1975.

Belarmino and Apolonio by Ramon Perez de Ayala. Translated from the Spanish with Gabriel Berns. Berkeley , California : University of California Press. 1971. (1983 – paperback reprint, University of California press; 1991 – British Paperback Edition, London , Quartet Books.)

The ideas of history of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill. Dissertation. Berkeley, CA : University of California, 1966-1969.

 

Essays

On Carlyle

“Carlyle and “Spiritual Optics.” Bloomington , Indiana : Victorian Studies: Volume 11. Indiana University Press, 1968.

 

 

 

On Dickens

 “Bill Murray’s Christmas Carols,” featured in John Glavin’s Dickens on Screen. Dickens on Screen provides an exhaustive filmography of how Charles Dicken’s works have been adapted to the big and small screen. This anthology is complete with illustrations, and is an invaluable resource for students and film scholars alike.

“Theatre and Dream-Vision: Venice, Dickens, and the Modern City,” featured in Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano’s Dickens and Italy: Little Dorrit and Pictures from ltaly.  Dickens and Italy: Little Dorrit and Pictures from ltaly explores the little-known relationship between novelist Charles Dickens and Italy. This work developed out of a major 2007 conference held in Genoa, and aims to fill a vital gap in Dickens studies by politically, biographically, and literally analyzing Dickens’ two major writings about Italy – the travel book “Pictures from Italy” of 1845, and Part Two of his great novel “Little Dorrit” of 1855-7.

On Seeing the Venice Ghetto Through the Eyes of Thomas Coryat

 

On Other Writers

“Clothing and Character,”
featured in David Neal Miller’s Recovering the Canon:
Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer
Recovering the Canon: Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer is a collection of essays and literary criticism about the legendary Jewish author, Isaac Bashevis Singer.

This anthology examines the author’s role in shaping the public perception of his oeuvre.

On Urban Culture / Urban Jewish Culture

“Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz and the Meaningfulness of Everyday Life,”featured in Ruby Rohrlich’s Resisting the Holocaust. Resisting the Holocaust is a reader which addresses the resistance of individuals, families, groups, movements, and nations to the Holocaust. It features articles written by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – including anthropology, history, politics, and sociology.

On Seeing the Venice Ghetto Through the Eyes of Thomas Coryat

“My Panama ,” featured in Marjorie Agosín’s Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America. Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America is an anthology of fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America . Their essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America, and how it changes throughout history— questioning whether being Jewish in the Americas is a transitory history, or a more permanent one.

“Their New York: possessing the ‘capital of words'”, featured in The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

Dual allegiances: Yiddish as Theme and Value in Modern Jewish Writing. Audio. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, 2008.