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Jewish Studies

Literature and Poetry

Whitman: Hatshepsut, Speak to MeHatshepsut, Speak to Me

Ruth Whitman

Ruth Whitman’s eighth volume of poetry—written in the form of a conversation with Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

Whitman: Laughing GasLaughing Gas: Poems New and Selected 1963–1990

Ruth Whitman

Brings together three decades of the work of contemporary American-Jewish poet Ruth Whitman.

Kremer: Witness through the ImaginationWitness through the Imagination: Jewish-American Holocaust Literature

S. Lillian Kremer

A critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction.

Shechner: Preserving the HungerPreserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader

Edited and introduced by Mark Shechner

An anthology of Rosenfeld’s essays, stories, and journal entries.

Wisse: A Shtetl and Other Yiddish NovellasA Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

Edited by Ruth Wisse

Five short novellas sharing a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and dealing in different ways with the Jewish confrontation with modernity.

Whitman: The Testing of Hanna SeneshThe Testing of Hanna Senesh

Ruth Whitman

Ruth Whitman recreates in poetry and prose the last nine months in the life of Hanna Senesh—poet, pioneer, and hero of World War II.