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Author: Max Apple
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published: 2000-05-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780446675970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the acclaimed Roommates offers a warm, nostalgic, and funny account of the life and times of Gootie Goodstein, his memorable grandmother, who immigrated to the U.S. from a small village in Lithuania. Reprint.
Author: Max Apple
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0801887380
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Author: Max Apple
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 1995-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780446602006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of The Oranging of America comes this inspiring true story about an American family. Rocky takes over a family, at the age of 103, and shows them how to survive.
Author: Eileen Pollack
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781566397896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA funny and moving first novel of nostalgia for Catskills hotel life.
Author: Melvin Jules Bukiet
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0767906500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Neurotica" is a stellar collection of 27 tales of sexual longing, consummation and frustration--of straight and gay sex; married, unmarried and adulterous sex; filthy, platonic and pathetic sex; awful toys and solo sex--by many of the masters and the freshest new voices of the Jewish-American literary tradition.
Author: Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 030013553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.
Author: Reinder Van Til
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0802824781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The coming-of-age stories in Thin Ice relate a range of experiences both good and bad, including happy memories and heartwarming recollections but also personal traumas, intergenerational and racial conflicts, the strictures of religious belief and practice, the joys and sorrows of young romance, and more. Above and beyond the stories of the more notable personalities -- Jim Harrison, Roger Wilkins, John Hockenberry, President Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Al Green, Paul Schrader, William Brashler -- the book as a whole is chock-full of crisp, humorous, irreverent, and moving writing. Reinder Van Til and Gordon Olson have excerpted half of the pieces from previous publications, while they directly solicited the other half from active writers specifically for this book. The earliest stories go back to the 1830s and 1850s, and the most recent are a cluster of contemporary pieces that describe coming of age in the Grand Rapids of the 1960s through the 1980s. Together they paint a multifaceted, impressionistic portrait of a century and a half in the fair city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. All in all, Thin Ice is a nostalgic treasure for any Grand Rapidian and literary treasure for e v e r y one. Contributors Albert Baxter Charles E. Belknap A. J. Muste Arnold Gingrich David Cornel DeJong Gerald R. Ford Betty Ford Edward V. Gillis John Thompson Roger Wilkins Jim Harrison Glen Peterson Max Apple John Otterbacher Reinder Van Til Al Green Paul Schrader Robert VanderMolen William Brashler Sheri Venema Hank Meijer Charles Honey Tom Rademacher Levi Rickert John Hockenberry Laura Kasischke Kaye Longberg Bich Minh Nguyen
Author: Jack Fischel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-30
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0313087342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Without the profound contributions of American Jews, the popular culture we know today would not exist. Where would music be without the music of Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand, humor without Judd Apatow and Jerry Seinfeld, film without Steven Spielberg, literature without Phillip Roth, Broadway without Rodgers and Hammerstein? These are just a few of the artists who broke new ground and changed the face of American popular culture forever. This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Up-to-date coverage and extensive attention to political and social contexts make this encyclopedia is an excellent resource for high school and college students interested in the full range of Jewish popular culture in the United States. Academic and public libraries will also treasure this work as an incomparable guide to our nation's heritage. Illustrations complement the text throughout, and many entries cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic sources to encourage further research.
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Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 302
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Author: Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1611171148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible. Vonnegut shared with readers a world that includes the expansive timeline from the Great Depression, during which his family lost their economic support, through the countercultural revolt of the 1960s, during which his fiction first gained prominence. Vonnegut also explored the growth in recent decades of America's sway in art, which his fiction celebrates, and geopolitics, which his novels question. A pioneer in Vonnegut studies, Jerome Klinkowitz offers The Vonnegut Effect as a thorough treatment of the author's fiction—a canon covering more than a half century and comprising twenty books. Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.
