Dancing on Tisha B'Av

Dancing on Tisha B'Av
Title Dancing on Tisha B'Av PDF eBook
Author Lev Raphael
Publisher Millivres-Prowler Group Limited
Pages 224
Release 1994-04-01
Genre Gay men
ISBN 9780854491780

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Children of Job

Children of Job
Title Children of Job PDF eBook
Author Alan L. Berger
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 254
Release 2012-02-01
Genre History
ISBN 0791496430

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Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish identity. It is the first systematic analysis of a body of work that introduces a new generation of Jewish writers and filmmakers, as well as revealing how the survivors' legacy is shaping--and being shaped by--the second generation. Carefully studying the work of these contemporary children of Job, Berger demonstrates how the offspring, like the survivors themselves, represent a variety of orientations to Judaism, have significant theological differences, and share the legacy of the Shoah. Berger clearly shows that members of the second generation participate fully in both the American and Jewish dimensions of their identity and articulates distinctive second-generation theological and psychosocial themes.

Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

Secret Anniversaries of the Heart
Title Secret Anniversaries of the Heart PDF eBook
Author Lev Raphael
Publisher Leapfrog Press
Pages 250
Release 2006
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780972898478

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When Lev Raphael published the controversial story collection Dancing on Tisha B'Av, he broke new ground in contemporary literature. Never before in one collection had an American writer revealed the conflicts between homosexuality and traditional Judaism, linked the chilling mind diseases of anti-Semitism and homophobia, and offered testimony not only to the legacy of Holocaust survivors but the suffering and conflicts of their children. Winner of the prestigious Lambda Literary Award, Raphael widened the scope of American Jewish fiction for a new generation. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart unites the most compelling tales from Dancing on Tisha B'Av with twelve new stories appearing in book form for the first time and the title story, never before published. Emotionally complex, edgy, and daringly intimate, here is a collection of twenty five years of stories that wrestle with questions of religious and sexual identity while displaying the gifts of a visionary writer in mid-career. Book jacket.

Telling the Little Secrets

Telling the Little Secrets
Title Telling the Little Secrets PDF eBook
Author Janet Handler Burstein
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 281
Release 2006-03-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0299212432

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Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of “home” in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within “the little secrets” of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.

Short Story Index

Short Story Index
Title Short Story Index PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1096
Release 1994
Genre Short stories
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Winter Eyes

Winter Eyes
Title Winter Eyes PDF eBook
Author Lev Raphael
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 260
Release 1994
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780312105761

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The American-born son of the Borowski family, Stefan, is a small boy lost in magic, visions, and fears; a detached but hungry adolescent; a lonely young man on the edge of self-discovery.

Identity Papers

Identity Papers
Title Identity Papers PDF eBook
Author Helene Meyers
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 251
Release 2011-12-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1438439245

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Identity Papers argues that contemporary Jewish American literature revises our understanding of Jewishness and Jewish difference. Moving beyond the reductive labeling of texts and authors as "too Jewish" or "not Jewish enough," and focusing instead on narratives that portray Jewish regeneration through feminist Orthodoxy, queerness, off-whiteness, and intermarriage, Helene Meyers resists a lachrymose view of contemporary Jewish American life. She argues that such gendered, sexed, and raced debates about Jewish identity become opportunities rather than crises, signs of creative potential rather than symptoms of assimilation and deracination. Thus, feminist debates within Orthodoxy are allied to Jewish continuity by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, and Tova Mirvis; the geography of Jewish identity is racialized by Alfred Uhry, Tony Kushner, and Philip Roth; and the works of Jyl Lynn Felman, Judith Katz, Lev Raphael, and Michael Lowenthal queer the Jewish family as they reveal homophobia to be an abomination. Even as Identity Papers expands Jewish literary horizons and offers much-needed alternatives to the culture wars between liberal and traditional Jews, it argues that Jewish difference productively troubles dominant narratives of feminist, queer, and whiteness studies. Meyers demonstrates that the evolving Jewish American literary renaissance is anything but provincial; rather, it is engaged with categories of difference central to contemporary academic discourses and our national life.