Product Description: Once, most of world Jewry was divided along The Gefilte Fish Line: cold and calculated Litvaks to the north, warm-blooded mystics to the south. Once, the majority of Jews lived in medieval market towns, surrounded by rivers, lakes, and forests...read more

An American Jewish anthology blends works by established top names with some of the current generation's most promising newcomers, in a volume that includes contributions by such writers as Cynthia Ozick, Lore Segal, and Max Apple. Original.

Product Description: This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Gathers short stories, diaries, sermons, essays, and poems written in response to the Spanish Inquisition, martyrdom, Russian pogroms, and the Holocaust

Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.