Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein National Jewish Book Award Winner His discussions are a model

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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s by Janet Handler Burstein National Jewish Book Award Winner His discussions are a modelJanet 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