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And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-
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Elie Wiesel
The second volume of Nobel laureate Wiesel's memoirs recalls his most public years as an activist for Holocaust remembrance and human rights, when he transformed himself from a successful novelist into a moral bulldog, challenging world leaders, including Francois Mitterand and Ronald Reagan, to be more ethically responsible.
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The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey
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Louise Borden, Allan Drummond (Illustrator)
Follow Hans and Margret Rey's amazing story of fleeing their Paris home in 1940 as the German army advanced in this book that resembles a travel journal and includes original photos, reproduced ticket stubs, and more. Full color.
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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ
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Emil Schurer
This classic work includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties of Judaism, messianic movements, and pertinent Greek and Jewish literature?including the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha?from the centuries before and after Christ. This five-volume set is the original edition of Schurer?s ...
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Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex
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Melvin Jules Bukiet (Editor)
This book collects a number of short stories and novel excerpts, written between 1962 and 1999, by a variety of Jewish authors, all addressing the universal topic of sex.
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Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible
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Rosenberg
In elegant, readable language, and with a vibrant sense of shared experience, many of America's leading novelists, poets, and literary critics guide us through the Old Testament, opening a window on how writers today view the Book of Books and throwing light on both American and Jewish culture.
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In Search of American Jewish Culture
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Professor Stephen J Whitfield
A cultural historian explores the interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
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Bech at Bay
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John Updike
Bech is back in the third of Updike's novels about the peripatetic Jewish-American author forever embattled by his literary peers, critics and women.
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Fiedler on the Roof
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Leslie Fiedler
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Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman
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Lilly Rivlin (Editor), Henny Wenkart (Editor), Enid Dame (Editor)
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Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
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Jules Chametzky (Editor), Mr. John Felstiner (Editor), Professor Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor)
Examining Jewish American literature from its 17th-century origins to its flourishing present, this anthology gathers the work of 145 writers in all genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, essays, journals, autobiographies, and song lyrics. Other editors are John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, and Kathryn Hellerstein.
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Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to "The Goldbergs"
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Donald Weber
'"Haunted in the New World" is a superb, insightful, and acutely intelligent piece of work. It makes a real contribution to the understanding of ethnicity in general and Jewish American culture in particular' - Morris Dickstein. In 1916 Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish daily "The Forward", warned his Yiddish-speaking readers of the potential ...
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In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Mikla3s Radna3ti
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Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Miklos Radnoti, a young Hungarian Jewish poet, was shot by German guards while on a forced march from Yugoslavia back to Hungary during the final days of World War II. When his body was discovered and exhumed nearly two years later, a small book of poems was found in his coat pocket. These poems, together with the rest of Radnoti's work, ...
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Mohr
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Frederick Reuss
With the sort of enthralling narrative step that always marks his work, Reuss reveals the story of the troubled relationship between a husband and wife--the husband being an exiled Jewish playwright who always meant to go back for Kthe, the beautiful wife he left behind, and Eva, their daughter.
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The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
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Jonathan Freedman
From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
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Michael Kramer (Editor), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Editor)
Essays by many critics and writers on Jewish literature in America, including the work of Philip Roth, Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick.
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American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories
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Gerald Shapiro (Editor)
This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers. To read through its pages is to encounter a remarkable - and remarkably diverse - literary ...
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The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
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Paul Reitter
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that provoked both admiration and outrage. Kraus' spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which led to a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. "The Anti-Journalist" overturns this view ...
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The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture
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Ruth R Wisse
In the spirit of Harold Bloom, Wisse has compiled the diverse but displaced works of Jewish literature that have largely been unacknowledged alongside other Western--Christian--canonical pieces. It brings together works in Yiddish, English, French, German, and Polish that strive to express the Jewish identity.
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Goldberg Variations
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Gabriel Josipovici
Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the "Goldbery Variations", this indefinable book is a collection of 30 individual stories which, when read together, turns into an intriguing and mysterious novel.
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A History of Russian Jewish Literature: Including B. Gorev's Essay "Russian Literature and the Jews"
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Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation
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Professor Emily Miller Budick, Emily M Brudick
Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, ...
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Mosaic Man
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Ronald Sukenick
Sukenick's fragmented, journal-like, autobiographical novel is about his Jewish background, his writing and that of others, and the spiritual impact of a visit to Jerusalem.
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Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
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Derek Rubin (Editor)
Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays--by turns nostalgic, comic, poignant, and provocative--give fascinating insights into the thinking and the work of some of America's most important contemporary writers.
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Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing
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Jerome Charyn (Editor)
When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight and buzz and ceaseless clatter of the inside of a hornet's head. Here, he shares with us ...
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Shaking Eve's Tree
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Sharon Niederman (Editor)
Shaking Eve's Tree is an anthology of short stories by contemporary Jewish women writers, many on mother-daughter relationships. The seventeen stories echo a major concern in the larger sphere of Jewish women's fiction: they deal with healing and new ways to form relationships within the family. Niederman's introduction addresses the development ...
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