I am very pleased to announce the launch of a book I edited with Murray
Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature
and co-Director of Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
The Jewish Street
The City and Modern Jewish Writing
An Anthology
Using the iconic "Jewish street" ("di Yidishe gas") as a metaphor, our
collection features more than forty stories highlighting the complex
relationship Jews have forged with city life. The anthology addresses
the diversity and creativity of Jewish urban experience over nearly five
centuries from India to Odessa, South Africa to Los Angeles, and points
between. We tried to mix well-known authors and works with some hidden
gems by lesser-known writers, some never before collected in an
anthology of Jewish writers. Murray and I co-authored the introduction
and I contributed a bibliographic study of Jewish anthologies to the
appendix, which also includes a glossary and information about the
authors. A copy of the table of contents is appended below.
Our book is available for sale directly from CreateSpace
(https://www.createspace.com/4348018 - $18 list price; discount code
JR63SAPT brings the price down by $3). It is also available from Amazon
(http://www.amazon.com/The-Jewish-Street-Writing-Anthology/dp/1492724440/);
the price varies.
-- Lee Jaffe
Planning & Assessment Librarian
Philosophy • Theater Arts • Jewish Studies
2290 McHenry Library
University of California
Santa Cruz, Calif. 95064
831-459-3297
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http://people.ucsc.edu/~ldjaffe/
THE JEWISH STREET
Encountering the Jewish Street • Murray Baumgarten & Lee David Jaffe 1
GHETTO, SHTETL, METROPOLIS
Child of the Ghetto • Israel Zangwill 17
The City Doctor • Israel Rabon 29
In Odessa • Isaac Babel 33
Kalman’s Progress • Zvi Jagendorf 41
Streets of Gold
In The Beginning • Alberto Gerchunoff 47
Hanging on the Edge of a Continent • Rose Zwi 50
The Strits of New York • Sholem Aleichem 57
My Father Was a Hero • Shlomo Katz 60
Suffolk Street • Abraham Cahan 70
REFUGEE SNAPSHOTS
Escape from Venice • Roberto Bassi 75
The Key Game • Ida Fink 88
My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner • Chaim Grade 90
The Greenhorn • Chava Rosenfarb 111
Passover • Carl Friedman 121
The March of the Fletcher’s Cadets • Mordecai Richler 126
Iraqi Stamps • Ariel Sabar 131
The Ballad of the Tie Salesman • Lucette Lagnado 134
Refugee Snapshots • Murray Baumgarten 142
ISRAELIS
Pulsations in Abyssinian Road • David Shahar 155
Twilight • Shulamith Hareven 161
Another Place, A Foreign City • Maya Arad 167
Street of the Whores • Ruth Knafo Setton 169
Herzl Boulevard on a Rainy Day • Yossel Birstein 177
Tel Aviv • Savyon Liebrecht 179
NEW YORKERS
Building Blocks • Allen Hoffman 201
Politics • Grace Paley 216
Mayor Puttermesser • Cynthia Ozick 219
Bird Watching in Central Park • Jonathan Rosen 226
The Jewbird • Bernard Malamud 233
Becker Is Not Going Out • Calvin Trillin 241
OTHER HOMELANDS
Journey Through Imagination and Memory • Marjorie Agosin 249
Wingate Football Club • Clive Sinclair 259
The Courtship of Naomi Samuel • Sophie Judah 267
The Tale of a Kite • Steve Stern 278
Suchawola to Philadelphia • Lee David Jaffe 290
Cossacks of Los Angeles • Walter Mosley 295
The Jerusalem of New Jersey • Rebecca Goldstein 300
THE FOURTH GENERATION: NEW VOICES
Im Yirtzeh Hashem By You • Shalom Auslander 313
When Skeptics Die • Yael Goldstein 323
White Smoke • Eduardo Halfon 333
The Americana Market • David Bezmozgis 337
Ahavah • Benjamin Rosenbaum 341
The Mistress • Lara Vapnyar 343
Appendix
The Jewish Anthology by Numbers: an analytic survey of
literary collections • Lee David Jaffe 359
Glossary 373
Additional Material 383
About the Authors 385
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