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The Conscious Reader, Tenth Edition
Pearson Longman
This classic thematic anthology has long been hailed for its exceptionally
rich collection of essays, memoirs, stories, poems, and plays, and for its
ground-breaking inclusion of classic and contemporary images. Includes Ursula
Melendi's essay "All of Heaven for Love" based on Aryeh Lev Stollman's short story
"Die Grosse Liebe."
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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s
by Janet Handler Burstein, University of Wisconsin Press
Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have
created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma,
loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art
Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether
confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of "home" in
exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for
understanding within "the little secrets" of their dark, complicated, and richly
furnished past.
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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature
by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Princeton University Press
Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction,
translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of
home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and
ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry
Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace
Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how
inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention.
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