Authors: S. L. Wisenberg
ISBN-13: 9780803298668, ISBN-10: 0803298668
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
S.L. Wisenberg is the author of The Sweetheart Is In, a collection of short stories that was named a book of the year by the Chicago Tribune. She is co-director of the Masters in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University and also teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies. She is the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine.
This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address the question of what it means to be an American Jew trying to negotiate overlapping identitieswoman, writer, and urban intellectual in search of a moral way. S.L. Wisenberg’s deeply ambivalent connection with the Holocaust reappears throughout these essays as she struggles to find a way to live with history without being swallowed by it.
"With her lucid style and power of observation, Wisenberg''s insightful essays are gems not to be missed."-
George Cohen, Booklist
List of Illustrations | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Holocaust Girls/Lemon | 1 | |
Shema, the First Prayer You Learn | 4 | |
Kavka/40 | 7 | |
Holocaust Girls/Closet | 14 | |
Flying | 18 | |
The Language of Heimatlos | 22 | |
Plain Scared, Or: There Is No Such Thing as Negative Space, the Art Teacher Said | 40 | |
Chicago: Loss of Property | 46 | |
At the Rose of Sharon Spiritual Church | 53 | |
Mexico on $15 a Day | 59 | |
Vacation at Club Dead | 61 | |
Yizkor (Memorial Service) | 64 | |
The Children of Theresienstadt | 69 | |
Afterwards | 75 | |
Getting to Yiddish | 84 | |
Monica and Hannah | 91 | |
Margot's Diary | 103 | |
Eating Horse | 107 | |
The Ones You Break Bread With | 111 | |
In the Mother Tongue | 127 | |
Amalek | 130 | |
Juggling: The New Year | 133 | |
Notes | 137 |