Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein Dictionaries and personal souvenirs

and personal souvenirs

With an unshakable will and a few drops of luck

from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers

The poem invokes Adele Wiseman's 1974 novel Crackpot

Gitty ropes Kvetch into shlepping off on a new adventure to their perfect purple treehouse

Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein Dictionaries and personal souvenirsJanet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of home in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers