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Beyond the Land by Melissa Weininger

Beyond the Land by Melissa Weininger

Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora...

Memory Spaces by Victoria Aarons

Memory Spaces by Victoria Aarons

Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical,...

Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn

Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn

Translator: Anita Norich Fear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860-1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired...

The Angel and the Cholent by Idit Pin­tel-Gins­berg

The Angel and the Cholent by Idit Pin­tel-Gins­berg

Food Rep­re­sen­ta­tion from the Israel Folk­tale Archives The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, analyzes how food...