Where we find ourselves : Jewish women around the world write about home /

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Imprint:	Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
Subject:	Home -- Social aspects. Home -- Psychological aspects. Home. Jewish families. Jewish women. Home Home -- Psychological aspects Jewish families Jewish women
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11134733

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Other authors / contributors:	Rosen, Deborah Nodler. Ben-Yoseph, Miriam.
ISBN:	9781438425207 1438425201 9781438425214 143842521X 9781438425221 1438425228
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Where we find ourselves. Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions, ©2009

Table of Contents:

Front Matter
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Content
I: Displacement and Exile
IsraIsland
A Home Called Exile
The Kitchen
Mirka and I
Independence Park: A Fiction
Burning in Cuba
Homeland Security
A Letter to My Grandmother on Coming Home from Europe
Marked by Carnival
Homesick
Memories of My Chinese Home
II: Place and Memory
To Return to Oneâ€?s Homeland
Snow Unites Jerusalem
From Cairo to Chicago
Bella, 1908Sisters
Shalom Bayit
All But My Life
Kentucky Fried Chicken
America
East
The Mah-Jongg Set
A Jewish Romanian in Oxford
In the Margin
To the Smell of Sea and Pickle
Isibaya (The Home)
III: Language and Creativity
Yiddishland
Silence
The Girl in the Balcony
The Music and Language of Home
Here
Posit
Morning Exercise
Renaissance
Line of Defense
IV: Family and Tradition
I, May I Find Home
The Dina Letters
My Indian Bene Israel Home
In Your Letter
If Only Iâ€?d Been Born a Kosher ChickenMy Motherâ€?s Roots
My Iranian Sukkah
Home for Thanksgiving
At Home in Shabbat
Learning the Language
When We Are BornWe Are Given a Golden Tentand All of Life Is the Foldingand Setting Up of the Tent
Back Matter
Notes on Contributors

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