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Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories
The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside \"every Jewish boy on the block\" to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: \"Enough is enough is more than enough.\" Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In \"Interlude in Bangkok,\" his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. \"I am not she,\" intones the mysterious movie star, and in his own way, Kaufman says that of himself in these stories through an autobiograp
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Between or Beyond? Jewish British Short Stories in English since the 1970s
Looking at short stories by writers as diverse as Brian Glanville, Ruth Fainlight, Clive Sinclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Lasdun, Gabriel Josipovici, Tamar Yellin, Michelene Wandor, and Naomi Alderman, and extending from the center of Jewish British writing to its margins, this article seeks to locate the defining feature of their ‘Jewish substratum’ in conditions particular to the Jewish post-war experience, and to trace its impact across their thematic plurality which, for the most part, transcends any specifically British concerns that may also emerge, opening up an Anglophone sphere of Jewish writing. More specifically, it is argued that the unease pervading so many Jewish British short stories since the 1970s is a product of, and response to, what may very broadly be described as the Jewish experience and the precarious circumstances of Jewish existence even after the Second World War and its cataclysmic impact. It is suggested that it is prompted in particular by the persistence of the Holocaust and the anxieties the historical event continues to produce; by the confrontation with competing patterns of identification, with antisemitism, and with Israel; and by anxieties of non-belonging, of fragmentation, of dislocation, and of dissolution. Turned into literary tropes, these experiences provide the basis of a Jewish substratum whose articulation is facilitated by the expansion of Jewish British writers into the space of Anglophone Jewish writing. As a result, the Jewish British short story emerges as a multifaceted and hybrid project in continuous progress.
Journal Article
The Anglo‐Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust
This chapter contains sections titled:
1 Survivors: Ruth Fainlight's “Another Survivor” and Jonathan Wilson's “From Shanghai”
2 Witnesses: Gabriel Josipovici's “He” and Alan Isler's “The Affair”
3 Tricksters: Wolf Mankowitz's “The Finest Pipe‐Maker in Russia,” James Lasdun's “Ate/Menos or The Miracle,” and Elena Lappin's “Noa and Noah”
4 Wanderers: Dan Jacobson's “The Zulu and the Zeide” and Clive Sinclair's “The Evolution of the Jews”
5 Exiles: Michelene Wandor's “Song of the Jewish Princess” and Neil Gaiman's “In the End”
References and Further Reading
Book Chapter
The Jewish American Story
This chapter contains sections titled:
Immigrant Beginnings
The Golden Age
After Alienation: Waning and Return
The New Immigrants
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
Book Chapter
A KOSHER SMORGASBORD: AUSTRALIAN JEWISH SHORT STORIES
This book* presents a collection of stories by Jewish members of the Australian community (to avoid the need to repeat that cumbrous phrase, I hereby christen them 'the Austrayids'-- with apologies for my inappropriate use of the word 'christen'). It is a thoroughly interesting collection, uneven like most anthologies, but seldom dull. That cannot, however, conceal the fact that the Jewish contribution to Australian writing has been barely noticeable. Nancy Keesing, who edits the collection, has been able to find only two stories worth including from the first 150 years of white occupation of the continent.
Magazine Article
Remembrance of Hanukkah past. (excerpt from The Hanukkah Anthology)
Come back with us to 19th-century America and step into the old-fashioned kitchen of the author's family as they get ready for this most joyous of Jewish holidays
Magazine Article
Were the jews a mediterranean society?
How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? The Torah's laws seem to constitute a rejection of the reciprocity-based social dependency and emphasis on honor that were customary in the ancient Mediterranean world. But were Jews really a people apart, and outside of this broadly shared culture? Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? argues that Jewish social relations in antiquity were animated by a core tension between biblical solidarity and exchange-based social values such as patronage, vassalage, formal friendship, and debt slavery. Seth Schwartz's examinations of the Wisdom of Ben Sira, the writings of Josephus, and the Palestinian Talmud reveal that Jews were more deeply implicated in Roman and Mediterranean bonds of reciprocity and honor than is commonly assumed. Schwartz demonstrates how Ben Sira juxtaposes exhortations to biblical piety with hard-headed and seemingly contradictory advice about coping with the dangers of social relations with non-Jews; how Josephus describes Jews as essentially countercultural; yet how the Talmudic rabbis assume Jews have completely internalized Roman norms at the same time as the rabbis seek to arouse resistance to those norms, even if it is only symbolic.
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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmudoffers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition.
Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.
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