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Promised Lands : New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging.
Title:
Promised Lands : New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging.
Author:
Rubin, Derek.
ISBN:
9781584659532
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Series:
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life & HBI Series on Jewish Women
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brandeis Series in American Jewish History -- HBI Series on Jewish Women -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction ][ Derek Rubin -- Shtetl World ][ Dara Horn -- Potatoes ][ Tova Mirvis -- Avigdor of the Apes ][ Steve Stern -- Toward Lithuania ][ Joey Rubin -- The Florida Sunshine Tree ][ Melvin Jules Bukiet -- Remittances ][ Joan Leegant -- Leo's Squid ][ Rivka Lovett -- Sovereignty ][ Nessa Rapoport -- The Liars ][ Jonathan Wilson -- Come on Zion Put Your Hands Together ][ Rachel Kadish -- The Lunatic ][ Binnie Kirshenbaum -- Homewrecker ][ Lauren Grodstein -- One Good Reason Why Not ][ Elisa Albert -- Midhusband ][ Edward Schwarzschild -- The Porchies ][ Adam Wilson -- The End of Anti-Semitism ][ Aaron Hamberger -- Things That Are Not Yours ][ Lara Vapnyar -- A Bisel This, a Bisel That ][ Janice Eidus -- The Yehudah Triangle ][ Thane Rosenbaum -- Money ][ Lev Raphael -- Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Is the Lord of Hosts ][ Yael Goldstein Love -- The Afterlife of Skeptics ][ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- The True World ][ Jonathon Rosen -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor & Contributors.
Abstract:
An anthology of previously-unpublished stories by leading young Jewish writers that explore the idea of the Promised Land.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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