Series Editor's Preface 1 Introduction The Vanishing Jew:On Teaching Bellow's Seize the Day as Ethnic Fiction MICHAEL P.KRAMER 2 "Who's he when he's at home?":Saul Bellow's Translations HANA WIRTH-NESHER 3 Manners and Morals, Civility and Barbarism:The Cultural Contexts of Seize the Day DONALD WEBER 4 Imaging Masochism and the Politics of Pain:"Facing" the Word in the Cinetext of Seize the Day SAM B.GIRGUS 5 Yizkor for Six Million:Mourning the Death of Civilization in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day EMILY MILLER BUDICK 6 Death and the Post-Modern Hero/Schlemiel:An Essay on Seize the Day JULES CHAMETZKY Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography