[bookshare-discuss] e: Jewish authors who write on Jewish themes
- From: Naomi Soule <nstm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:16:29 -0600
Steve Birmingham is good. I've read a few of his books.
I'm talking about contemporary Jewish writers. I've read and
love Saul Bellow, and many of those you mentioned. I'll get some
names for you.
Naomi
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From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
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Date sent: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 18:22:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Jewish authors who write on Jewish
themes
I haven't read any of his books, but I think Bob's
right about Saul Bellow. And there's Philip Roth. I
recently read Chaim Potok's semi-autobiographical
novels--wonderful!!!We have four in the collection
but three are rated Fair and one Good. Start with The
Chosen. Davida's Harp is another that I read that is
not in the collection. They'd fall into the genre of
historical fiction as they take place in the U.S.
during the 20s, 30s, 40s--conflicts not only within a
Hasidic culture but in the world. Then there's Elie
Wiesel and Leon Uris; I've read a couple of his books
that have to do with WWII.
I don't think Stephen Birmingham is Jewish, but his
Our Crowd and The Grandees, both of which I've read,
is nonfiction but as readable as fiction and about the
original Jews who came to America and settled.
I'm assuming when Naomi says Jewish authors she means
those whose books have Jewish themes. I googled a list
of Jewish authors and there are many who write
"regular" books. I was amazed at who is Jewish.
But then there are non-U.S. authors who are classic
Jewish writers, whose works I have not read, like
Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Yiddish writer who won a
Novel Prize in Literature in 1978 and Sholem
Asch,another Yiddish writer.
G.Cindy
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