Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in
Jewish American literature and
film studies. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English and Chair of the English department at
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
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Background
Weber received his B.A. from
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
and an M.A. and Ph.D. from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.
Publications
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Haunted in the New World
''Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs'' is a 2005 book by Donald Weber written as an overview of 20th century Jewish American literature and popular culture. Abraham Cahan was one of the most recognizable ...
.'' Indiana University Press, 2005. . 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.
See also
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American literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...
References
External links
Weber's profile at Mount Holyoke College
Literary critics of English
Stony Brook University alumni
American literary critics
Jewish American writers
Mount Holyoke College faculty
Columbia University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Jewish cinema
21st-century American Jews
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