Writing Jewish
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A lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today.
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1. Preface: 'No Place Like Home'.- 2. British-Jewish Writing Today.- 3. 'Two Thousand Years of Memory': Memory and British-Jewish Identity.- 4. 'An Impossible Task': Remembering the Holocaust.- 5. 'Rootsie-tootsie': (Re)locating Jews in Contemporary Britain.- 6. Belonging and Division: British-Jewish Reflections on Israel.- 7. Barmitzvahs and Balls: British-Jewish Masculinities.- 8. 'A Vortex of Contradictory Forces': British-Jewish Women.- 9. Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Contemporary Identities.- Afterword.- Bibliography.- Index.