Articles By Sanford Pinsker

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Sanford Pinsker is an emeritus professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College. He writes widely about Jewish literature and culture, and in recent years has been a judge for the Edward Lewis Wallant Prize, the Reform Judaism Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award.

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  Isaac Bashevis Singer: Between Fact and Fiction

  The life and work of Yiddish literature's Nobel laureate.

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  Chelm Stories & Motke Habad

  Where the lovable fools of Jewish humor came from--and what they mean.

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  Ravelstein: A Writer's Soul

  Bellow's final novel was inspired by his friendship with Allan Bloom.

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  Future of Jewish Humor

  Can Jewish-American humor survive the assimilationist 21st century?

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  Steve Stern

  Steve Stern's The Wedding Jester.

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  Novelists in the Nineties

  In the 1970s, literary critics predicted the demise of the Jewish American novel. A talented group of novelists proved them wrong.

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  Jewish-American Fiction in the 21st Century

  Vibrancy and diversity mark the new crop of novelists and story writers.

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  Philip Roth

  A long (fictional) trail of tears.




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