Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual Throughout the book Anna Miransky

Throughout the book Anna Miransky examines her complicated relationship with her father through the lenses of language barriers and generational trauma

award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual llan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture

and destroying all evidence of their murders

a biography of his Russian years

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual Throughout the book Anna MiranskyChicken soup and Barbra Streisand, lost fathers and first dates, Hebrew school and Queen Esther, seders and seductions. In this insightful, original anthology, forty five American Jewish writers explore the richness of their shared heritage, from the tragic to the trivial. In memoirs, fiction, and poetry new and favorite writers like Grace Paley, Amy Bloom, Vivian Gornick, and Laura Cunningham brilliantly reveal the challenges of coming of age as a