Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism

“Will become the defining analysis of the question of Jewishness in Stein’s writing—a question absolutely crucial to understanding this great modernist writer. An important and long-awaited contribution to Stein studies.”—Barbara Will, author of Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

“The first full-length study of Gertrude Stein’s Jewishness and how it is central rather than ancillary to her foundational contributions to modernist literature, this book is convincing, lucidly written, and a joy to read.”—Maria Damon, author of Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries

“A thorough and wide-ranging account of Jewishness in Stein’s oeuvre, making a convincing case that for Stein, modernism and the modern were both in important senses metaphorically Jewish.”—Maren Tova Linett, author of Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness

“Reads Stein’s large and difficult oeuvre with the care and perceptiveness it deserves. . . . Feinstein’s book clarifies that Jewishness was crucial and central to Stein’s art.”—AmericanJewishStudies.org

“Shows the centrality of Stein’s understanding of Jewish identity and language in her work.”—Modernism/modernity