The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing: An Anthology
Murray Baumgartenteaches urban Jewish writing and Dickens at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature and co-Director of Jewish Studies. Founding Director of the Dickens Project, he also studies modern Jewish writing of the city. His books includeCity Scriptures: Modern Jewish WritingandUnderstanding Philip Roth, and he has editedHomes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination. He is the founding editor-in-chief of theCalifornia Carlyle Editionand the Emeritus Editor ofJudaism: A Quarterly Journal Of Jewish Life & Thought. Recently he has been working on the afterlife of the Venice Ghetto, and is a founder of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies.Lee David Jaffeis the Assessment & Planning Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the librarian for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, and Theatre Arts.  Lee maintains an extensive online directory to Jewish writers (http://bit.ly/jwritersucsclibrary).