Holocaust Girls
History, Memory, and Other Obsessions
By S. L. Wisenberg
(Bison Books, Paperback, 9780803298668, 142pp.)
Publication Date: December 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (September 2002)
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This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address the question of what it means to be an American Jew trying to negotiate overlapping identities—woman, writer, and urban intellectual in search of a moral way. S.L. Wisenberg’s deeply ambivalent connection with the Holocaust reappears throughout these essays as she struggles to find a way to live with history without being swallowed by it.
"Wisenberg demonstrates an acute awareness of the absurdities of collective histories as well as individual human lives. . . . The beauty of these essays lies both in their taut, fraught language and the understated punchlines that purposefully upset the balance towards which author has so artfully striven."-Lilith
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The Privileges Jonathan Dee Random House |
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The Unnamed Joshua Ferris Reagan Arthur Books |
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Committed Elizabeth Gilbert Viking Adult |
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The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
