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The Art of Silence

Although my novel,  The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company , is set in the silent film era—it begins ...

In a Class by Themselves: A Jewish Fiction Reading List

A couple of years ago I decided to lead a group of adult learners in a class on Jewish fiction. The ...

Not Feeling the Candy Hearts? Turn Around Your 50 Shades of Abysmal Gray

It’s that time of year…chocolates, flowers, jewelry. Sappy advertisements and red and pink store displays. There are reminders everywhere. It’s Valentine’s ...

I Am Writer. Are You Chopped Liver?

Is it possible to take the ego out of writing? I ask this question because I ask myself why I write, and ...

Writing the Radical Other

In my first novel, I wrote from the point of view of a Nazi. In my new novel, The Wanting , ...

Dreaming in Mother Tongues

Zi kholmt – she dreams.In Irena Klepfisz’s remarkable poem, “Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn / A few words in the mother tongue,” the speaker ...

Yiddish and Us

The three of us waited expectantly and somewhat nervously in the seminar room, wondering why we had been summoned by ...

Yiddish and Me

When I first began studying Yiddish, I felt like I was remembering something I already knew.It was a lovely sensation, this ...

The Last Jew of Boyle Heights

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about the death of Eddie Goldstein, “the last Jewish man of ...

Djewess Unchained

Sometime back in my childhood, I got the idea that it was “nicer” to say “I’m Jewish” than “I’m a ...

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