Physical Description
xv, 445 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
A ghetto wedding / Abraham Cahan
How I found America / Anzia Yezierska
A wedding in Brownsville / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen
In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz
The lady of the lake / Bernard Malamud
A silver dish / Saul Bellow
Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley
What must I say to you? / Norma Rosen
The decline of Sholem Waldman / Wallace Markfield
Envy; or, Yiddish in America / Cynthia Ozick
Ghost stories / E.M. Broner
Among the witnesses / Stanley Elkin
When you're excused, you're excused / Bruce Jay Friedman
On the air / Philip Roth
Electricity / Francine Prose
The tale of a kite / Steve Stern
The library of Moloch / Melvin Jules Bukiet
History (with dreams) / Lev Raphael
Auslander / Michelle Herman
The 19th Jew / Robin Hemley
The revisionist / Helen Schulman
Sarah / Allegra Goodman.
Other Authors/Editors
Shapiro, Gerald, 1950-
ISBN
0803242646
080329252X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
A ghetto wedding / Abraham Cahan -- How I found America / Anzia Yezierska -- A wedding in Brownsville / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- The lady of the lake / Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley -- What must I say to you? / Norma Rosen -- The decline of Sholem Waldman / Wallace Markfield -- Envy; or, Yiddish in America / Cynthia Ozick -- Ghost stories / E.M. Broner -- Among the witnesses / Stanley Elkin -- When you're excused, you're excused / Bruce Jay Friedman -- On the air / Philip Roth -- Electricity / Francine Prose -- The tale of a kite / Steve Stern -- The library of Moloch / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- History (with dreams) / Lev Raphael -- Auslander / Michelle Herman -- The 19th Jew / Robin Hemley -- The revisionist / Helen Schulman -- Sarah / Allegra Goodman.
