Donald Weber

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.^[1]

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. He joined Mount Holyoke in 1981.

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.

"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.