Growing Up Jewish: An Anthology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688128246 ISBN 13: 9780688128241

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Twenty-six personal accounts by such popular authors as Edna Ferber, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth explore issues of Jewish identity, language, generational differences, heritage, and rites of passage.

About this title

About the Author:

Jay David is the author of Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present--Twenty-Five African Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoods and Growing Up Jewish: An Anthology. He lives in New York City.

From Library Journal:

America is a great ocean of stories. This volume of excerpts contains stories and essays about being Jewish and young in 20th-century America. Despite the anti-Semitism and poverty they detail, the personal anecdotes and descriptions are fascinating windows into other people's joys and successes. Many of the pieces are excerpts from novels, e.g., Philip Roth's The Facts and Chaim Potok's The Chosen. Editor David (Growing Up Black, Avon, 1992. rev. ed.) has divided the selections into three parts: "Making Their Way," "Discovering 'Americanness,' " and "New Voices." The closeness and the estrangement of the generations and between men and women are the motifs of many of the writers. Cynthia Ozick's beautiful selection describes both "Yiddishkeit" and a writer's childhood. Ari Goldman's memoir of his life after the divorce of his parents is especially poignant. A good introduction to Jewish life in America.?Gene Shaw, NYPL
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0688128246
• ISBN 13: 9780688128241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249
• Editor: David Jay