Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual With a chapter for each

With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar

Throughout the book Anna Miransky examines her complicated relationship with her father through the lenses of language barriers and generational trauma

contributes an essay

a biography of his Russian years

and destroying all evidence of their murders

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual With a chapter for eachChicken soup and Barbra Streisand, lost fathers and first dates, Hebrew school and Queen Esther, seders and seductions. In this insightful, original anthology, forty five American Jewish writers explore the richness of their shared heritage, from the tragic to the trivial. In memoirs, fiction, and poetry new and favorite writers like Grace Paley, Amy Bloom, Vivian Gornick, and Laura Cunningham brilliantly reveal the challenges of coming of age as a