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  • Crying in the Rain

    No Longer Soaked in Shame

    by Dr. Derek Parker ...
    What happens when a child knows he was asked for...yet grows up feeling unwanted?In Crying in the Rain, Dr. Derek Parker shares a deeply personal and spiritually powerful journey through rejection, identity, perseverance, and healing. From the quiet confusion of childhood expectations to the emotional weight of striving for acceptance, he recounts the silent battles many people fight but rarely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Visualizing Jewish Narratives

    Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels

    Edited by Dr Derek Parker Royal ...
    Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Jews and Humor

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this ... Read more

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  • Promiscuous: "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

    by Prof. Bernard Avishai ...
    The publication of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers—some delighted, others appalled. Portnoy and other main characters became instant archetypes, and Roth himself became a touchstone for conflicting attitudes toward sexual ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

    Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

    by Tahneer Oksman ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Borrowed Voices

    Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination

    by Jennifer Glaser ...
    In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America.In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Unfinalized Moments

    Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative

    Edited by Derek Parker Royal ...
    Series series Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
    Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection of essays on this subject matter with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. The ... Read more

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  • Race, Rights, and Recognition

    Jewish American Literature since 1969

    by Dean Franco ...
    In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based rights and recognition that preoccupy Latino, African American, and Native American writers, they ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Space of Words

    Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs

    by Jennifer M Hoyle ...
    Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based entirely on her postwar poems. Such an isolated approach to her complex body of work is increasingly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red, Black, and Jew

    New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature

    by Stephen Katz ...
    Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers. Red, Black, and Jew illuminates a unique and often overlooked aspect of these literary ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Thousand Darknesses

    Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

    by Ruth Franklin ...
    What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her provocative study A Thousand Darknesses, Ruth Franklin investigates these questions as they arise in the most significant works of Holocaust ... Read more

    $31.49 USD