| Description |
xxix, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Poems : Greeks -- The fish in the net -- The seventeen questions of Rabbi Zusya -- Footnote to Lord Acton -- Commuters' train through Harlem -- Caryatid -- When that with tragic rapture Moses stood -- Fiction : A selection from Trust -- Envy; or, Yiddish in America -- Virility -- A mercenary -- Puttermesser : her work history, her ancestry, her afterlife -- Puttermesser and Xanthippe -- At Fumicaro -- Essays : Mrs. Virginia Woolf : a madwoman and her nurse -- Justice (again) to Edith Wharton -- Justice to feminism : 2. Literature and the politics of sex : a dissent -- The lesson of the master -- Washington Square, 1946 -- The question of our speech : the return to aural culture -- Crocodiled moats in the kingdom of letters -- Portrait of the artist as a bad character. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Literary collections.
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Jews. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Kauvar, Elaine M. (Elaine Mozer), 1939-
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1996 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95104336
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| ISBN |
0253330394 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253210534 paperback alkaline paper |
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