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Neighbors
The World Next Door
The delicate, often tortuous relationship between neighboring cultures animates these works of history and fiction, which trace the Jewish experience from Muslim Spain to Bolshevik Russia to contemporary America.
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Modern Marvels
Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel
The graphic novel is exciting new form of storytelling. Here, five Jewish artists experiment with words and pictures to tell stories of childhood, war, and desire, to conjure up lost worlds, both real and imaginary, and to contemplate history, myth, and the individual psyche.
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Your Heart's Desire
Sex and Love in Jewish Literature
In these works of modern fiction, love and desire cross paths in the math department, on the analyst's couch, in an Israeli garage—and often with surprising results: an arranged marriage heats up, a ménage à trois turns cozy.
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Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks
Monsters of the Jewish Imagination
These five tales, which are as much about bodies—the enchanting, the ailing, the monstrous—as about spirits, leave the reader wondering: Which is stranger, the supernatural world or our own?
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Between Two Worlds
Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming
A central tension of the Jewish Diaspora takes on psychological, metaphorical, and even physiological dimensions as writers from Egypt, Brazil, Europe, Canada, and the United States explore what it means to belong.
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A Mind of Her Own
Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World
"I carried her in my arms," sighs Tevye, as another daughter goes her own way—and so begins a modern literary tradition of Jewish fathers and daughters who get carried away with politics, money, sex, religion, and, above all, one another.
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A Sensitive Issue
The Good Book
Close-Up
What Happened to Mary Berg?
Forbidden Fruit