By Erika Dreifus
What do we read of Holocaust literature? More importantly, what should we read? Authors David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant provide a much-needed guide.
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By Erika Dreifus
Rebecca Kanner’s new novel,
“Sinners and the Sea,” imagines the experiences of that woman. In a recent interview with The Sisterhood, Kanner, who is based in Minneapolis, talked about the book.
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By Erika Dreifus
Every March brings us
Women’s History Month. Among this year’s highlights is the publication of a new biography of an American Jewish woman — Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp — by another American Jewish woman, Ann Kirschner.
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By Erika Dreifus
On December 6, the
Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York hosted a panel with an intriguing title:
“Contemporary Jewish-American Writing: What Has Changed?” Equally interesting, especially when
attention is being paid to gender (in)equities in publishing, the panel proposed to discuss how women writers, in particular, have influenced the shifts. Although the event didn’t address all of its anticipated questions, it left me considering how my own recent reading in Jewish books — works whose content reflects an engagement with identifiably Jewish subjects, such as Jewish history, prayer, ritual, language and Israel — may reflect some of those shifts and changes.
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By Erika Dreifus
Unlike Hans Keilson’s bestsellers, ‘Life Goes On’ is not grounded in the crises and moral dilemmas posed by the Nazis’ reign. It takes on the period of economic decline that preceded it.
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