Janet Burstein
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News Israeli Critics Comment –– Problematically –– on American Jewish Fiction
Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature Edited by Michael P. Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher Cambridge University Press, 316 pages, $22. * * *| In most respects the new “Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature” lives up to its illustrious predecessors. Essays on Yiddish and Hebrew literature in America and on the “renaissance” of the 1950s…
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Your Mouth Is Lovely By Nancy Richler Ecco/HarperCollins, 386 pages, $25.95. * * *| Contemporary Jews reconstruct the lost places of the European past in search of ground solid enough to support the foundations of their future. This Jewish search for what Jewish literature professor David Roskies has called a “usable past” animates fictional as…
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