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'''Donald Weber''' is a literary critic and specialist in [[Jewish American literature]] and [[film studies]]. He is the ''Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth Professor of English'' at [[Mount Holyoke College]], where he has been a professor since 1981.
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'''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]].<ref>{{cite news
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==Background==
==Background==
Weber received his B.A. from [[State University of New York at Stony Brook]] and an M.A. and Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]].
Weber received his B.A. from [[State University of New York at Stony Brook]] and an M.A. and Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]]. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.<ref name=":0" />


==Publications==
==Publications==
* ''[[Haunted in the New World]].'' 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.

===Book===
* ''Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs.'' Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-2533-4579-0

===Select articles===
*"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.

===Reviews===
*''[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/newsfull.shtml?nomy=1&node=4792639&full=1 David Mamet's Jewish Turn]'' - ''Chronicle of Higher Education,'' November 3, 2006.
*''[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/newsfull.shtml?portal_id=2JGD4D2g5NUn%7EnDQ8DD_rgQ_&node=4712912&full=1 How Murder Exposed Dutch to Issues of Faith and Identity]'' - ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', September 10, 2006.
*''[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/newsfull.shtml?nomy=1&node=4038948&full=1 A Whale of a Book About Herman Melville]'' - ''Chicago Tribune'', November 6, 2005.


==See also==
==See also==
* [[American literature]]
* [[American literature]]

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* [[Jewish American literature]].
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/donald_weber Weber's profile at Mount Holyoke College] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623014842/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/donald_weber |date=2015-06-23 }}
*[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/DWeber.shtml Official website]
*[http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0253345790 Powells review]


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Latest revision as of 14:21, 4 June 2024

For the Canadian photographer, see Donald Weber (photographer).
Donald Weber
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
GenreJewish American literature
Notable worksHaunted in the New World

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.[1][2]

Background

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Weber received his B.A. from State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.[2]

Publications

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  • Haunted in the New World. 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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Citations search: "Donald Weber" (Google Books)". Retrieved 2007-11-09.
  2. ^ a b "Donald Weber". Mount Holyoke College. 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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