Evergreen

Early Jewish writers were more concerned with the randomness of suffering than with its actual existence.

A concept that accounts for suffering, but also contributes to the problem of its existence.

Sometimes there is a conflict between the mandate to save lives and the mandate to avoid health risks.

Is there something uniquely Jewish about the poetry of Jewish Americans?

A writer who used the Jew as a metaphor for humankind.

Jewish socialism influenced Grace Paley's life and literature.

The most successful Jewish American writer may be the most ambivalent as well.

At mid 20th century, Jewish writers connected with American readers by writing about alienation.

The founder and editor of the Forward wrote one of the most important American immigrant novels ever.

In America, a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl could become a renowned writer and Hollywood commodity.