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Here I am : contemporary Jewish stories from around the world / compiled & edited by Marsha Lee Berkman and Elaine Marcus Starkman.
LIBRA - Rare PN6067 .H47 1998 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish literature.
- Jews in literature.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- 5758
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 466 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; Jerusalem : The Jewish Publication Society, 1998/5758.
- Summary:
- Here I Am is a premier collection of contemporary Jewish short stories from around the world, spanning six continents and twenty-four countries. Contributors include Cynthia Ozick, Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Nadine Gordimer, and Allegra Goodman, as well as many authors never before published in English.
- The need for such an anthology has never been more timely; the end of the Cold War and the immediacy of the World Wide Web have unleashed a torrent of dialogue with Jews formerly isolated from the rest of the Jewish community.
- Editors Marsha Lee Berkman and Elaine Marcus Starkman have compiled a stunning chorus of voices that articulate the evolving Jewish identity. Surprisingly, drastic differences in geography have done little to affect the basic themes of what it means to be a Jew today: the hardships of living in the Diaspora, the specter of anti-Semitism, the fear of complete assimilation, and of lost heritage.
- Contents:
- North America
- United States
- "The American Bakery" / Max Apple
- "Here I Am" / Persis Knobbe
- "Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife" / Cynthia Ozick
- "Bruno's Metamorphosis" / Steve Stern
- "The Four Questions" / Allegra Goodman
- "Madagascar" / Steven Schwartz
- "Kaddish in Cambodia" / Elie Wiesel
- Canada
- "The Ugly Jewess" / Veronica Ross
- "Racial Memories" / Matt Cohen
- Central and South America
- Mexico
- "In the Name of His Name" / Angelina Muniz-Huberman
- Guatemala
- "Mar Abramowitz" / Victor Perera
- Chile
- from "Osorno" / Marjorie Agosin
- Argentina
- "The Last Emigrant" / Nora Glickman
- Brazil
- "A Small Farm in the Interior, Quatro Irmaos District, Rio Grande Do Sul: September 24, 1935-September 23, 1947" / Moacyr Scliar
- Western Europe
- Italy
- "Southwards" / Primo Levi
- England
- "Another Survivor" / Ruth Fainlight
- France
- from The Chant of Being / Gil Ben Aych
- Germany
- "Finkelstein's Fingers" / Maxim Biller
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Czech Republic
- "Miriam" / Ivan Klima
- Romania
- "The Instructor" / Norman Manea
- Poland
- "Missing Pieces" / Stanislaw Benski
- Russia
- "Irons and Diamonds" / Nina Sadur
- Yugoslavia
- "Jerusalem" / David Albahari
- Hungary
- "Expectations" / George Konrad
- Other Diasporas
- South Africa
- "My Father Leaves Home" / Nadine Gordimer
- Australia
- "Two Years in Exile" / Serge Liberman
- China
- "Braverman, DP" / Isabelle Maynard
- Ethiopia
- from "Escape Westward / Shmuel Avraham
- Iraq
- from "Farewell, Babylon / Naim Kattan
- Egypt
- from "The Last Seder" / André Aciman
- Israel
- from Akud / Albert Swissa
- from "Five Seasons" / A. B. Yehoshua
- "A Room on the Roof" / Savyon Liebrecht
- "The Store" / David Ehrlich
- "A Matter of Identity" / Shulamith Hareven.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-466).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Here I am.
- ISBN:
- 0827606540
- 9780827606548
- OCLC:
- 38495170
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