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I Love Gootie

Author : Max Apple
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446675970

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I Love Gootie by Max Apple Pdf

The author of the acclaimed Roommates offers a warm, nostalgic, and funny account of the life and times of Gootie Goodstein, his memorable grandmother, who immigrated to the U.S. from a small village in Lithuania. Reprint.

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture

Author : Jack Fischel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313087349

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Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture by Jack Fischel Pdf

This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Without the profound contributions of American Jews, the popular culture we know today would not exist. Where would music be without the music of Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand, humor without Judd Apatow and Jerry Seinfeld, film without Steven Spielberg, literature without Phillip Roth, Broadway without Rodgers and Hammerstein? These are just a few of the artists who broke new ground and changed the face of American popular culture forever. This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Up-to-date coverage and extensive attention to political and social contexts make this encyclopedia is an excellent resource for high school and college students interested in the full range of Jewish popular culture in the United States. Academic and public libraries will also treasure this work as an incomparable guide to our nation's heritage. Illustrations complement the text throughout, and many entries cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic sources to encourage further research.

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization

Author : Deborah Dash Moore,Nurith Gertz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300135534

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization by Deborah Dash Moore,Nurith Gertz Pdf

Presents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.

Thin Ice

Author : Reinder Van Til,Gordon L. Olson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802824783

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Thin Ice by Reinder Van Til,Gordon L. Olson Pdf

DESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The coming-of-age stories in Thin Ice relate a range of experiences both good and bad, including happy memories and heartwarming recollections but also personal traumas, intergenerational and racial conflicts, the strictures of religious belief and practice, the joys and sorrows of young romance, and more. Above and beyond the stories of the more notable personalities -- Jim Harrison, Roger Wilkins, John Hockenberry, President Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Al Green, Paul Schrader, William Brashler -- the book as a whole is chock-full of crisp, humorous, irreverent, and moving writing. Reinder Van Til and Gordon Olson have excerpted half of the pieces from previous publications, while they directly solicited the other half from active writers specifically for this book. The earliest stories go back to the 1830s and 1850s, and the most recent are a cluster of contemporary pieces that describe coming of age in the Grand Rapids of the 1960s through the 1980s. Together they paint a multifaceted, impressionistic portrait of a century and a half in the fair city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. All in all, Thin Ice is a nostalgic treasure for any Grand Rapidian and literary treasure for e v e r y one. Contributors Albert Baxter Charles E. Belknap A. J. Muste Arnold Gingrich David Cornel DeJong Gerald R. Ford Betty Ford Edward V. Gillis John Thompson Roger Wilkins Jim Harrison Glen Peterson Max Apple John Otterbacher Reinder Van Til Al Green Paul Schrader Robert VanderMolen William Brashler Sheri Venema Hank Meijer Charles Honey Tom Rademacher Levi Rickert John Hockenberry Laura Kasischke Kaye Longberg Bich Minh Nguyen

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1716 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135456061

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442276208

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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason Pdf

The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

The Vonnegut Effect

Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611171143

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The Vonnegut Effect by Jerome Klinkowitz Pdf

A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible. Vonnegut shared with readers a world that includes the expansive timeline from the Great Depression, during which his family lost their economic support, through the countercultural revolt of the 1960s, during which his fiction first gained prominence. Vonnegut also explored the growth in recent decades of America's sway in art, which his fiction celebrates, and geopolitics, which his novels question. A pioneer in Vonnegut studies, Jerome Klinkowitz offers The Vonnegut Effect as a thorough treatment of the author's fiction—a canon covering more than a half century and comprising twenty books. Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3854 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781438140698

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Encyclopedia of the American Novel by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

The Michigan Alumnus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015055427390

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The Michigan Alumnus by Anonim Pdf

In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.

Fearless Confessions

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780820336060

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Fearless Confessions by Sue William Silverman Pdf

Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces—from family members to the media—who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent. Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

Good Neighbors, Bad Times

Author : Mimi Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803217676

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Good Neighbors, Bad Times by Mimi Schwartz Pdf

Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers and her father s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her father, before Hitler, everyone got along ? It was only many years later, when she heard a remarkable story of the Torah from that very village being rescued by Christians on Kristallnacht, that Schwartz began to sense how much these stories might mean. Thus began a twelve-year quest that covered three continents as Schwartz sought answers in the historical records and among those who remembered that time. Welcomed into the homes of both the Jews who had fled the village fifty years earlier and the Christians who had remained, Schwartz peered into family albums, ate home-baked linzertorte (almost everyone served it!), and heard countless stories about life in one small village before, during, and after Nazi times. Sometimes stories overlapped, sometimes one memory challenged another, but always they seemed to muddy the waters of easy judgment. Small stories of decency are often overlooked in the wake of a larger historic narrative. Yet we need these stories to provide a moral compass, especially in times of political extremism, when fear and hatred strain the bonds of loyalty and neighborly compassion. How, this book asks, do neighbors maintain a modicum of decency in such times? How do we negotiate evil and remain humane when, as in the Nazi years, hate rules?

Neurotica

Author : Melvin Jules Bukiet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780767906500

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Neurotica by Melvin Jules Bukiet Pdf

"Neurotica" is a stellar collection of 27 tales of sexual longing, consummation and frustration--of straight and gay sex; married, unmarried and adulterous sex; filthy, platonic and pathetic sex; awful toys and solo sex--by many of the masters and the freshest new voices of the Jewish-American literary tradition.

The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

Author : Max Apple
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801887380

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The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories by Max Apple Pdf

Call it Kmart magical realism.-Washington Post Book World

Paradise, New York

Author : Eileen Pollack
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566397898

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Paradise, New York by Eileen Pollack Pdf

A funny and moving first novel of nostalgia for Catskills hotel life.

Church & Synagogue Libraries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Church libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015079416122

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Church & Synagogue Libraries by Anonim Pdf