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Follow my footprints : changing images of women in American Jewish fiction
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Follow my footprints : changing images of women in American Jewish fiction

Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: Hanover : University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, ©1992.
Series: The Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sylvia Barack Fishman
ISBN: 0874515440 9780874515442 0874515831 9780874515831
OCLC Number: 25164766
Description: xv, 506 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A marred holiday ; A woman's wrath / I.L. Peretz -- Hodel / Sholem Aleichem -- Soldier in an army of mothers (excerpt) / Sholem Asch -- Mother Vella and her in-laws (excerpt) / Chaim Grade -- Yentl the yeshiva boy / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Girl learns it's not easy being green (excerpt) / Abraham Cahan -- The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska -- Genya's boy on an island (excerpt) ; Two sisters (excerpt) / Henry Roth -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Marjorie's conversations with mother (excerpt) ; Marsha's advice (excerpt) / Herman Wouk -- Princess Brenda fixes life (excerpt) ; Jewish mother par excellence (excerpt) / Philip Roth -- Helen's search (excerpt) / Bernard Malamud -- Leah rediscovers her mother (excerpt) / Seymour Epstein -- Dreamers in a dead language / Grace Paley -- The burning pond (excerpt) / Vivian Gornick -- Mothers and daughters make their own myth (excerpt) / Anne Richardson Roiphe -- The Holocaust mother (excerpt) / Gloria Goldreich -- Street of the whores / Ruth Knafo Setton -- Food of love / Gloria Kirchheimer -- Why God gave you brains (excerpt) ; Lessons from Mrs. Einstein (excerpt) ; Feminine is dumb (excerpt) / Rebecca Goldstein -- Puttermesser and Xanthippe / Cynthia Ozick.
Series Title: The Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Responsibility: edited and with introductory essay and notes by Sylvia Barack Fishman.

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