Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined
Over the next fifty years he turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newspapermen of his day
While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society
stunningly edited edition of Kruk's acclaimed journals
Menachem-Mendl writes his opinions of world events and Jewish problems
Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein National Jewish Book Award Winner Feasting and Fasting explores questionsJanet 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