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Tag: Allegra Goodman

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REVIEW: ‘This is Not About Us’

Robert Nagler Miller in Hadassah · 7 Jan

Allegra Goodman delivers another captivating exploration of Jewish American family dynamics in her novel "This is Not About Us," returning to her favored style of interconnected stories.

0 Culture Education

Jewish on Campus

Sources · 30 Jun 2024

Allegra Goodman's 1996 novel, "The Family Markowitz," captures the perennial challenges of cultural transmission within Jewish families by depicting a Passover seder where modern young adults express divergent connections to their Jewish identity.

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Beyond Bagels and Lox: Writing about Jewish Lives in the 21st Century with Allegra Goodman and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest

Moment in Moment · 11 Jul 2023

In this conversation, Allegra Goodman, an acclaimed novelist, discusses how contemporary writers portray Jewish lives in 21st-century America.

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American Pastorals

Michael Hoberman in Tablet · 19 Mar 2021

In this essay, the author reflects on their experience in the south of France and discusses two novels, Philip Roth's "American Pastoral" and Allegra Goodman's "Kaaterskill Falls," which explore the consequences of trying to transcend history.

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The Way We Live Now

Abraham Socher in Jewish Review of Books · 2 Apr 2020

The text discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on daily life and Jewish traditions.

0 History Communities

The Secret Jewish History Of Hawaii

Forward · 18 Mar 2019

Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a Jewish scholar, briefly became a significant figure in Hawaiian history after ingratiating himself with King David Kalakaua in the mid-19th century.