Sephardic-American Voices
Subtitle: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780874517866
Subjects: Jewish studies; Literary studies: general; Literary collections; Jewish American Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Semitic languages; Sociology; USA; American - General; Jewish; Short Stories (Anthologies); Religion / Judaism / General; American literature; Jewish authors; Jews; Sephardim
Description: These selections, many available for the first time, span nearly three centuries and examine themes such as the centrality of family life, the pain of uprooting from established communities, collision between tradition and assimilation, roles and relationships of men and women, and the toxicity of self-hatred.

Informed by sources ranging from biblical literature to historical events, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat generation, and post-modern ironies, these works introduce a literature that, "though small on an absolute scale and little known, forces us to take a new critical perspective on Jewish American writing."