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“jules chametzky”

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  • The Rise of David Levinsky

    by Abraham Cahan, Jules Chametzky ...
    The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of the American Way."First published in 1917, Abraham Cahan's realistic novel tells the story of ... Read more

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  • Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers

    A Cultural Memoir

    by Jules Chametzky ...
    In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers, from Alfred Kazin to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Brodsky, and Amos Oz—to name a few. Also included are cameo appearances by non-Jewish authors, such as James ... Read more

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  • Jewels and Ashes

    by Arnold Zable ...
    Romance and terror, light and shadow, replicas and originals, hover side by side, seeking reconciliation, while within me there is a sense of awe and a silent refrain: I am here, at last I am here; and it is far more beautiful than I had imagined. And far more devastating. Yet, somehow, never have I felt so much at peace.In the twenty-five years since it was published, Jewels and Ashes has become ... Read more

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  • Hitler, My Neighbor

    Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939

    by Edgar Feuchtwanger, Bertil Scali ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf ... Read more

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  • How the Jews Defeated Hitler

    Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Barnow

    by Karl Emil Franzos ...
    A fascinating look at life in the Jewish ghetto in the 19th century, written by Jewish writer and publicist Karl Emil Franzos. ... Read more

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  • Lies About My Family

    A Memoir

    by Amy Hoffman ...
    This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.All of Amy Hoffman's grandparents came to the United States during the early twentieth century from areas in Poland and Russia that ... Read more

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  • The Literary Quest for an American National Character

    by Finn Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    "What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these ... Read more

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  • Semites and Anti-Semites

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "A powerful book. It combines the coolness of scholarship with conclusions that cannot fail to engage the passions."—Saul BellowThe Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long ... Read more

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  • Letters to My Father

    by William Styron ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    “I’ve finally pretty much decided what to write next—a novel based on Nat Turner’s rebellion,” twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

    Edited by John N. Serio ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and ... Read more

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