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Lost tribe : Jewish fiction from the edge / edited by Paul Zakrzewski.
Van Pelt Library PN6120.95.J6 L67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Jewish.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 548 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Perennial, [2003]
- Summary:
- Funny, raw, dark, sometimes outrageous, the twenty-five contributors to "Lost Tribe" explore themes such as conflicted identities, sexual fetishes, religious intolerance, and even the troubled legacy of the Holocaust to create a stirring picture of contemporary Jewish life. "Lost Tribe" features stories and commentary from a brilliant mixture of critically acclaimed and emerging writers. Steve Almond Aimee Bender Gabriel Brownstein Judy Budnitz Nathan Englander Jonathan Safran Foer Myla Goldberg Ehud Havazelet Dara Horn Rachel Kadish Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer Binnie Kirshenbaum Joan Leegant Michael Lowenthal Ellen Miller Tova Mirvis Peter Orner Jon Papernick Nelly Reifler Ben Schrank Suzan Sherman Gary Shteyngart Aryeh Lev Stollman Ellen Umansky Simone Zelitch
- Contents:
- The last one way / Nathan Englander
- Several anecdotes about my wife / Gary Shteyngart
- Julian / Nelly Reifler
- Knitting one / Suzan Sherman
- Leah / Ehud Havazelet
- Bachelor party / Gabriel Brownstein
- Who knows kaddish / Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Hershel / Judy Budnitz
- A dream of sleep / Steve Almond
- Barbarians at the gates / Dara Horn
- Ordinary pain / Michael Lowenthal
- Die grosse Liebe / Aryeh Lev Stollman
- Dreaming in Polish / Aimee Bender
- Walt Kaplan reads Hiroshima, March 1947 / Peter Orner
- In memory of Chanveasna Chan, who is still alive / Ellen Miller
- How to make it to the promised land / Ellen Umansky
- The argument / Rachel Kadish
- Bee season / Myla Goldberg
- A Poland, a Lithuania, a Galicia / Tova Mirvis
- Consent / Ben Schrank
- Ten plagues / Simone Zelitch
- Seekers in the Holy Land / Joan Leegant
- The very rigid search / Jonathan Safran Foer
- Goodbye, evil eye / Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
- The king of the king of falafel / Jon Papernick.
- ISBN:
- 0060533463
- OCLC:
- 52818101
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