People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky Dybbuk 2 Wooden Mallets

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Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally

abandoned mine shafts

and entirely secure in her community--a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates

Bubbe’s relationship with the city is complex – nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and angry at the world around her

People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky Dybbuk 2 Wooden MalletsA Mark Twain scholar. An African American philosopher. A lesbian feminist literary critic. A Cuban American anthropologist. A German immigrant to the United States. A professor of English at a Jesuit university. All share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas in People of the Book, the first book in which Jewish American scholars examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavors, and how