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Here I am : contemporary Jewish stories from around the world

Title: Here I am : contemporary Jewish stories from around the world / compiled & edited by Marsha Lee Berkman and Elaine Marcus Starkman.
Publication: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

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xiv, 466 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Here I Am is a premier collection of contemporary Jewish short stories from around the world, spanning six continents and twenty-four countries.
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.

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Contents

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 -- The Ugly Jewess / Veronica Ross -- Racial Memories / Matt Cohen -- In the Name of His Name / Angelina Muniz-Huberman -- Mar Abramowitz / Victor Perera -- Osorno / Marjorie Agosin -- The Last Emigrant / Nora Glickman -- A Small Farm in the Interior, Quatro Irmaos District, Rio Grande Do Sul: September 24, 1935-September 23, 1947 / Moacyr Scliar -- Southwards / Primo Levi -- Another Survivor / Ruth Fainlight -- The Chant of Being / Gil Ben Aych -- Finkelstein's Fingers / Maxim Biller -- Miriam / Ivan Klima -- The Instructor / Norman Manea -- Missing Pieces / Stanislaw Benski -- Irons and Diamonds / Nina Sadur -- Jerusalem / David Albahari -- Expectations / George Konrad --
My Father Leaves Home / Nadine Gordimer -- Two Years in Exile / Serge Liberman -- Braverman, DP / Isabelle Maynard -- Escape Westward / Shmuel Avraham -- Farewell, Babylon / Naim Kattan -- The Last Seder / Andre Aciman -- Akud / Albert Swissa -- Five Seasons / A. B. Yehoshua -- A Room on the Roof / Savyon Liebrecht -- The Store / David Ehrlich -- A Matter of Identity / Shulamith Hareven.

ISBN

0827606540 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98014407

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Columbia University Libraries