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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808410103321

Titolo

Where we find ourselves : Jewish women around the world write about home / / edited by Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : Excelsior Editions, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2520-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

Ben-YosephMiriam

RosenDeborah Nodler

Disciplina

305.488924

Soggetti

Jewish women

Jewish families

Home

Home - Psychological aspects

Home - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Content""; ""I: Displacement and Exile""; ""IsraIsland""; ""A Home Called Exile""; ""The Kitchen""; ""Mirka and I""; ""Independence Park: A Fiction""; ""Burning in Cuba""; ""Homeland Security""; ""A Letter to My Grandmother on Coming Home from Europe""; ""Marked by Carnival""; ""Homesick""; ""Memories of My Chinese Home""; ""II: Place and Memory""; ""To Return to One�s Homeland""; ""Snow Unites Jerusalem""; ""From Cairo to Chicago""

""Bella, 1908""""Sisters""; ""Shalom Bayit""; ""All But My Life""; ""Kentucky Fried Chicken""; ""America""; ""East""; ""The Mah-Jongg Set""; ""A Jewish Romanian in Oxford""; ""In the Margin""; ""To the Smell of Sea and Pickle""; ""Isibaya (The Home)""; ""III: Language and Creativity""; ""Yiddishland""; ""Silence""; ""The Girl in the Balcony""; ""The Music and Language of Home""; ""Here""; ""Posit""; ""Morning Exercise""; ""Renaissance""; ""Line of Defense""; ""IV: Family and Tradition""; ""I, May I Find Home""; ""The Dina Letters""; ""My Indian Bene Israel Home""; ""In Your Letter""



""If Only I�d Been Born a Kosher Chicken""""My Mother�s Roots""; ""My Iranian Sukkah""; ""Home for Thanksgiving""; ""At Home in Shabbat""; ""Learning the Language""; ""When We Are BornWe Are Given a Golden Tentand All of Life Is the Foldingand Setting Up of the Tent""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes on Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.