Promised Lands : New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging.
Rubin, Derek.
Promised Lands : New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging. - Hanover : Brandeis University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (337 pages) - Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life & HBI Series on Jewish Women .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Shtetl World; Potatoes; Avigdor of the Apes; Toward Lithuania; The Florida Sunshine Tree; Remittances; Leo's Squid; Sovereignty; The Liars; Come on Zion Put Your Hands Together; The Lunatic; Homewrecker; One Good Reason Why Not; Midhusband; The Porchies; The End of Anti-Semitism; Things That Are Not Yours; A Bisel This, a Bisel That; The Yehudah Triangle; Money; Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Is the Lord of Hosts; The Afterlife of Skeptics; The True World; Acknowledgments; About the Editor and Contributors.
An anthology of previously-unpublished stories by leading young Jewish writers that explore the idea of the Promised Land.
9781584659532
American fiction--Jewish authors.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Desire--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS648 / .P766 2010
Promised Lands : New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging. - Hanover : Brandeis University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (337 pages) - Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life & HBI Series on Jewish Women .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Shtetl World; Potatoes; Avigdor of the Apes; Toward Lithuania; The Florida Sunshine Tree; Remittances; Leo's Squid; Sovereignty; The Liars; Come on Zion Put Your Hands Together; The Lunatic; Homewrecker; One Good Reason Why Not; Midhusband; The Porchies; The End of Anti-Semitism; Things That Are Not Yours; A Bisel This, a Bisel That; The Yehudah Triangle; Money; Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Is the Lord of Hosts; The Afterlife of Skeptics; The True World; Acknowledgments; About the Editor and Contributors.
An anthology of previously-unpublished stories by leading young Jewish writers that explore the idea of the Promised Land.
9781584659532
American fiction--Jewish authors.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Desire--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS648 / .P766 2010