Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual and given the judges’ Jewish

and given the judges’ Jewish background

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

With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar

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

Job arrives in the form of an avaricious former sorority girl-Smashing the Tablets presents a collection of provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual and given the judges’ JewishChicken 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