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Authors: Diane Matza
ISBN-13: 9780874518900, ISBN-10: 0874518903
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Diane Matza

DIANE MATZA is Professor of English at Utica College.

Book Synopsis

A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.

Shofar Journal

Seeks to define what it means to be a Sephardic-American writer, and dramatizes the relationship of this literature to the body of work created by American Ashkenazim.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Miriam	20
	On the Persecution of the Jews of Damascus	21
	Zipra Nunez's Account of the Family's Escape	23
	The Crowing of the Red Cock	25
	The Banner of the Jew	26
	The Scientific Mother	28
	The Portrait of the Senior Wrangler	31
	On the Jewish Exile	33
	Letter to Europe	34
	Those Memphis Jews	35
	Selections from Farewell to Salonica: The Minaret	46
	Selections from Farewell to Salonica: Our House in Salonica	49
	Selections from Farewell to Salonica: The Old Order Passeth	56
	All the Way Home	66
	Nona - A Recollection	68
	Fabric	71
	La Tia Estambolia	72
	The Gold Chain	80
	Recollections	87
	Hotel Majestic	104
	Lament	104
	The IQ and I: My Adventures Near the Bottom of the Bell Curve	107
	Ba'lawa	121
	Excerpts from Suleika: Before	128
	Excerpts from Suleika: Cage	130
	The Voyager	142
	Arbitration	146
	La America	151
	Grandfathers	153
	Poem for Grandma	158
	Toward the Light	160
	Sunday Visits	161
	Suspect Fashion	162
	Grace	164
	Letter to My Father on the Other Side	165
	Let Us Go to Chrystie Street	167
	Selections from Rabbi: Chapter One	177
	Selections from Rabbi: Rosalie Speaks	211
	Erica	221
	The Inquiry	225
	Stella's Story	232
	Trip	235
	Homage to Our Turkish Brethren	241
	Once - A Bright Fire	243
	Cameo	267
	Loops	280
	Atonement	287
	After Ecclesiastes	288
	I Had Thought of Writing a Play Based on the Following Facts	291
	Sometimes People Think	299
	Saving the Puffins: Puffin Rhapsody	300
	The Mystical Child	301
	Revelation	302
	Highway Song	305
	Nameless Daughter	306
	Both Jewish and Arabic	308
	My Family Reunion	309
	My Father Driving, Delivering a Few Dozen Skirts on a Saturday Morning	313
	Singing for Saturday Morning	313
	Teacher in Bayside	314
	Erev Shabbat BiYerushalayim	314
	Going to Pray	314
	Standing Up in the Subway	315
	Excerpts from Island of Strangers	316
	The Thrill and Glamour of War	316
	The Authenticity of Experience	334
	Strangers in Jerusalem	341
	Contradictions and Schizophrenia	346
	Where the Labyrinth Leads	350
	Selected Primary Bibliography	357
	Secondary Bibliography	359
	Permissions Acknowledgments	361

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