What Makes Sammy Run?
Three weeks before Sammy’s thirteenth birthday Papa came in too upset to eat.
“Tonight when I come out of schule the rabbi wants to talk to me. ‘Max, my heart is like lead to tell you this,’ he says, ‘but your son Samuel cannot be bar-mitzvah. He never comes to cheder. He does not know his Brochis. The Melamud says he knows no more about the Torah t…
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Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Fiction and Poetry
1939–1973
Jewish literature developed individual rather than collective voices, as postwar Jewish identity was transformed by the forces of modernism and assimilation.
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