Jewish self-hatred: antisemitism and the hidden language of the Jews

Examines the historiography of Jewish self-hatred and traces the response of Jewish writers from the High Middle Ages to contemporary America, to the charge that Jews are unable to command the language of the larger society in which they live. A concluding look at post-Holocaust literature in Germany and North America reveals that writers such as Philip Roth and Woody Allen deal in new ways with the charge of possessing a damaged and damaging discourse