…in the North__Am_erican Literary Imagination Joan Leegant A few years ago I showed a writer friend a town, they had to survive the transitions." draft of a story I was working on. The Of course, not all North American writers are as story, set in the present, centered on a 70- restrained as Miller when it comes to the fervent poli- year-old Jerusalemite who'd left Europe some tics that drive such immigrants to places inside the fift...…
…STEVE ALMOND E Israel as the respository of highly charged Jewish longing is not new; it has been inspiring dreams of glory of all stripes for centuries. , just finish Tithe Olsen's "Tell Me a which Kadish herself was for some months, All of which raises an interesting ques- adding yet another layer of complexity to this tion: what about Israelis who are not new already rich story of the immigrant encounter immigrants or religious fan...…
…LARA VAPNYAR THERE ARE JEWS IN my HOUSE 0 n the night when Raya was supposed Jews." Her hands were getting cold; she shook the to leave with the peasant, she water off the doormat and carried it back to the appeared at Galina's door at about 3 hall. "Raya may be dead in a few days," she a.m. She stood in the doorway in her boots caked thought. Both Raya and Leeza. Galina sat down, with country mud, soaked with sweat under her makin...…
…a l a Jewish Literary c _upplement There still was danger, of course. Great danger. But the thought of the danger didn't dampen Galina's ardor; on the contrary, it made her all the more enthusiastic. — FROM THERE ARE JEWS IN MY HOUSE ' BY LARA VAPNYAR things and come to my place. We have to make it knew her way around it. When Galina threw before morning," she said breathlessly to Raya as birthday parties, Raya, who always came earl...…
…NORMAN MANEA THE HOOLI GAN'S RETURN Norman Manea is the author of fourteen volumes I n the autumn of 1986, before I left Romania, I failed to convince my old parents, listening to me took an eight-hour journey by train from with depressed skepticism, that my going away was Bucharest to Suceava, into the very heart of only a temporary separation. Bukovina, to say my final goodbyes. As I entered the The day before my return to Bucha...…
…Jewish Literary Supplement Ai It was obvious that the once bustling little town of my youth had also fallen on hard times. The people looked diminished, muted. One could read the sadness and bitterness, the smoldering anger, in their dry, wrinkled faces, in their tense greetings, even in the most commonplace exchanges.” —from The Hooligan's Return help her sit on the edge of the bed. As soon as the woman withdrew, the torrent of words...…
…Treasuring-Yiddish for the_Right Reasons Dora Horn I Dara Horn is a doctoral candidate in Hebrew have often wondered if there is any language language spoken by real people (and the number in the world that is as cherished as Yiddish— of Yiddish speakers today is actually growing, that is, by people who can't speak or read a thanks to the demographics of religious commu- word of it. Few Jewish writers in America today nities that s...…
…Jewish Readers have gotten the hint. Most sin, or of sex, but of the concept of death American Jewish readers under 60, I think, itself, in a world where death doesn't yet could probably name three concentration exist. That poem sent me back to the Book camps. But how many of those readers of Genesis, where I discovered something could name three Yiddish writers? Is there in the text that I had never noticed before. a point to knowi...…
…NELLY REIFLER n Friday evenings during the school year, Julia. uncle Maurice- Julian walked out of the kitchen and went to fIerzl's brother—came over with his kneel next to Peter, who was inspecting a Frank son Peter. This visit would be their first since Zappa record he'd taken out of a faded card- May. The doorbell rang at eight o'clock. Herzl board jacket. Julian remembered Peter prying was resting upstairs in the bedroom. Julian ...…
…• u•ached into the kitchen, he wondered if been about to squeeze his shoulder a o ogetsca y or hit him." r ROM "JULIAN" BY NELLY REIFLER - - - that Peter's walls were painted red and had pic- Julian opened the magazine to the first page. tures of Bob Dylan, Albert Einstein, and the On one side was an ad for menthol cigarettes, on kibbutz in Israel that he'd visited. Julian opened the other a table of contents. Julian squinted so ...…
…MELVIN JULES BUKIET TONGUE OF THE JEWS J ane Hawkins, nee Hodges, from a line as cessful settlement, Edward found other reasons venerable as her husband's — railroads- to remain involved in the world of his Jews. He, had once been proud of Ned. She who had hardly ever known a Jew, immersed remembered him on the basketball court, All- himself in Hebrew tragedy. He looked backward Ivy, pre-law, senatorial timber. Their first home pas...…
…A FAKER'S DOZE grew gaunt, as if attempting to simulate in his own body the survivors who had, ironically, grown fat. M E LV Jewish Literary c _upplement He sipped his own tea and looked at her. "There's a book I'm think- ing of," he said. "I know it's here somewhere." He glanced at the shelves. All of this was a tragic loss, but Jane accepted the academic lifestyle She recalled the way her husband would sit in bed reading and say, w...…
…_Contemporary Literature as _Modern_Midrasly Janet Burstein . T he lure of our earliest texts, like a persist- of the essayists above. Engaged in the work of ent undertow, has been drawing what theorist Maurice Halbwachs has called "col- American Jewish writers back to the lective memory," the essayists drew "from the sources of our culture. Among the first of many past what still lives or is capable of living in the contemporary wr...…
…RACHEL JACOBSOHN Law fails to satisfy Ozick's rabbi, who Abraham's despair and Isaac's wound. As begins to read Romantic poetry and to the novel fills in these gaps in the original seek out the "free spirits" of the natural narrative, it augments our memory of the world, abandoning the sacred texts, his collective past. wife and daughters. He knows that faith- Two other recent novels carry the fulness to the Law obliges him to turn ...…
…Why Books Matter ne of my earliest remembrances of Phyllis Friedman, the editorial benefactor of this literary supplement, was a conversation with her outside of the local grocery store many years ago. She mentioned that her father, Dan Koshland, was celebrating a birthday. "What present are you giving him?" I asked. She replied, "He always wanted me to read Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, so I'm reading it." That very personal and literary gift mad...…
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…New Concertmaster For Ann Arbor Symphony 72 Pianist/Psychiatrist Dissects Musicians' Minds 74 A Young Couple Creates A Healthier Taste 86 It's a theatergoers' town. STORY Torah Feldshub in "Golder 's Balcony," a one-woman play based on the life of Golda Meir on page 68 …
…Best Bets Family Affair M ark Feldman has performed in Ann Arbor with a number of groups, but his upcoming performance is a family project. pn at the Edge," which merges Feldman's violin sounds with the piano style of wife Sylvie Courvoisier, begins 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Kerrytown Concert House. "Sylvie and I are going to play our own composi- tions with some improvisations," says Feldman, 48, married for three years to the Swiss...…
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…New York New York ma. Its a theatergoers' town. ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to the Jewish News T his fall, exciting new musicals and inspiring dramas, as well as classic revivals, are filling New York stages. Theatergoers will have no trouble finding a show to suit their taste. What's more, many of the new productions feature Jewish playwrights, actors, themes, composers and directors. In keeping with our annual fall tradition, here's...…
…NEW YORK from page 68 `Rounding Adam Arkin reconnects with Judaism. ro laying a father lacking in athletic skills is easy for Matthew Arkin, star of Rounding Third. In the Off-Broadway show, he portrays an inept Little League assistant coach who can barely throw or hit a ball. In real life, it's hardly a stretch. "I don't know anything about baseball," says Arkin, Matthew Arkin, left, and Robert Clohessy in "Rounding Third" from his dressi...…
…NEw YORK from page 69 Wonderful Town: Based on the book My Sister Eileen (later made into a movie and TV series), this musical first opened on Broadway in 1953. A tribute to New York City, the musi- cal's lively score is by Leonard Bernstein, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Set in the 1920s, it tells the story of two sisters from Ohio — one is smart, the other is pretty — and how they move to New York to search for jobs and make...…
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