The Jews that I knew
Subtitle: voices from the invisible ghetto
By: Ed Schwartz
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781500150761
Subjects: American literature; Jewish authors; Littérature américaine; Auteurs juifs
Description: "In this multi-genre religious autobiography, Schwartz offers a funny, poignant testament to the ways the secular and spiritual can merge in the life of one person. Schwartz grew up in the Borscht Belt, the affectionate name given to communities of American Jews in upstate New York in the middle of the last century. This is his effort to capture that region's dynamic mix of Yiddish tradition and American pride. He does so by pulling together a variety of different literary forms--Scripture, poetry, drama, memoir--and mashing them into an idiosyncratic but thoroughly appropriate celebration of the culture that created him"--Kirkus Reviews.