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Article

Rebellion and Creativity: Contextualizing Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Author’s Note” to The Penitent

Bashe­vis Singer com­ments on his nar­ra­tor com­ment­ing on his char­ac­ters — and David Stromberg untan­gles the polypho­ny of the Nobel Prize win­ner’s fic­tion­al world.

Review

Miriam Udel’s Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque

Miri­am Udel’s new book trav­els with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twen­ti­eth century.

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