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Where we find ourselves : Jewish women around the world write about home / edited by Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish women.
- Jewish families.
- Home.
- Home--Psychological aspects.
- Home--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Content""; ""I: Displacement and Exile""; ""IsraIsland""; ""A Home Called Exile""; ""The Kitchen""; ""Mirka and I""; ""Independence Park: A Fiction""; ""Burning in Cuba""; ""Homeland Security""; ""A Letter to My Grandmother on Coming Home from Europe""; ""Marked by Carnival""; ""Homesick""; ""Memories of My Chinese Home""; ""II: Place and Memory""; ""To Return to One�s Homeland""; ""Snow Unites Jerusalem""; ""From Cairo to Chicago""
- ""Bella, 1908""""Sisters""; ""Shalom Bayit""; ""All But My Life""; ""Kentucky Fried Chicken""; ""America""; ""East""; ""The Mah-Jongg Set""; ""A Jewish Romanian in Oxford""; ""In the Margin""; ""To the Smell of Sea and Pickle""; ""Isibaya (The Home)""; ""III: Language and Creativity""; ""Yiddishland""; ""Silence""; ""The Girl in the Balcony""; ""The Music and Language of Home""; ""Here""; ""Posit""; ""Morning Exercise""; ""Renaissance""; ""Line of Defense""; ""IV: Family and Tradition""; ""I, May I Find Home""; ""The Dina Letters""; ""My Indian Bene Israel Home""; ""In Your Letter""
- ""If Only I�d Been Born a Kosher Chicken""""My Mother�s Roots""; ""My Iranian Sukkah""; ""Home for Thanksgiving""; ""At Home in Shabbat""; ""Learning the Language""; ""When We Are BornWe Are Given a Golden Tentand All of Life Is the Foldingand Setting Up of the Tent""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes on Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438425207
- 1438425201
- OCLC:
- 794701365
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