Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein National Jewish Book Award Winner yet remarkably diverse

yet remarkably diverse

triumphing over early hardships

While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society

Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined

Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein National Jewish Book Award Winner yet remarkably diverseJanet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of home in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers