Donald Weber
Encyclopedia
Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature
and film studies
. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College
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and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University
. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.
Jewish American literature
Jewish American Literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish...
and film studies
Film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...
. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
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Background
Weber received his B.A. from State University of New York at Stony BrookState University of New York at Stony Brook
The State University of New York at Stony Brook, also known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, about east of Manhattan....
and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.
Book
- Haunted in the New WorldHaunted in the New WorldHaunted in the New World is a book, published in 2005, by Donald Weber. The book's subtitle, Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs reflects the broad scope of the work as an overview of 20th century Jewish American literature and popular culture. Abraham Cahan was one of the most...
. Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-253-34579-0. The book's subtitle, Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs, reflects its broad scope as a review of Jewish-American literature and popular culture.
Select Essays
- "Taking Jewish American Popular Culture Seriously: The Yinglish Worlds of Gertrude Berg, Milton Berle, and Mickey Katz," Jewish Social Studies 5 (1999), 124-53.
- "Manners and Morals, Civility and Barbarism: The Cultural Contexts of Seize the Day," in New Essays on Seize the Day, ed. Michael P. Kramer (New York, Cambridge Univ. Press 1998), pp. 43–70.
- "The Jewish American World of Gertrude Berg: The Goldbergs on Radio and Television, 1930-1950," in Talking Back: Representations of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture, ed Joyce Antleer (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1998), pp. 85–99' 260-63.
- "'No Secrets Were Safe From Me': Situating Hanif Kureishi," The Massachusetts Review 39 (1997), 119-35.
- "Memory and Repression in Early Ethnic Television: The Example of Gertrude Berg and The Goldbergs," in The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons, ed. Joel Foreman (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996), pp. 144–67.
- "Outsiders and Greenhorns: Christopher Newman in the Old World, David Levinsky in the New," American Literature 67 (1995), 725-36.
- "From Limen to Border: A Meditation on the Legacy of Victor Turner for American Cultural Studies," American Quarterly 47 (1995), 525-36.
- Reconsidering the Hansend Thesis: Generational Metaphors and American Ethnic Studies," American Quarterly 43 (1991), 320-332.
- "Historicizing the Errand," American Literary History 2 (1990), 101-18.
Articles
- List of articles -The Daily Forward
Reviews
- David Mamet's Jewish Turn - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
, November 3, 2006. - How Murder Exposed Dutch to Issues of Faith and Identity - Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, September 10, 2006. - A Whale of a Book About Herman Melville - Chicago Tribune, November 6, 2005.