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Connecticut Review Call for Academic Essays on "Jewish Identity and Culture in Mainstream America"

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“Jewish literature is a vital piece of what has come to be considered important American literature. Many authors of Jewish descent have chronicled their experiences as immigrants living in America, as well as their experiences living as Jewish- Americans and establishing a Jewish identity in a culture that is predominantly of European descent. How has Jewish identity manifested itself in literature? How has it influenced other American authors in their writing? Is the concept of a Jewish identity still recognizable in literature today?

CT Review is looking for academic essays on the works of Allen Ginsberg, Elie Wiesel, and Bob Dylan exploring how Jewish identity has manifested itself in American culture and literature, as well as an address on how Jewish culture and identity have influenced American literature and whether or not it has assimilated with American culture and become unrecognizable in society today.”

Deadline is March 1, 2010. For the full CFP, please click here.

Veterans’ Day Event: Alison Buckholtz at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington

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Speaking of Veterans’ Day, Alison Buckholtz, author of Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War, will be the speaker at a drop-in lunch and lecture tomorrow (Wednesday, 11/11), at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. “On this Veterans’ Day, take a unique look into the role of a military wife as she speaks candidly about her family’s struggles, triumphs and the culture shock as Jews in the military during her husband’s wartime deployment on an aircraft carrier.” $8 lecture only, $18 lunch and lecture. Details here.

TBR: Allison Amend’s STATIONS WEST

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This new interview with fiction writer Allison Amend gives us advance notice about what promises to be one of next spring’s most interesting reads: Amend’s forthcoming debut novel, Stations West, “an historical novel relating the lives of four generations of Jewish immigrants in Oklahoma in the mid-19th Century” that is loosely based on Amend’s own ancestors. Stations West will be published by the Yellow Shoe Fiction imprint at Louisiana State University Press.

I’m really sorry that I missed the story (published in the remarkable One Story) that apparently provided the seed for the novel. But one of the things I love about One Story is its custom of interviewing authors about their published pieces, and you can learn more about the history behind “Stations West,” the story in another interview with the author.

Upcoming Events at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

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News from the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust:

“The September-October public programming schedule at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will feature provocative discussions, intriguing authors, and talented performing artists. The Museum welcomes author Zoë Heller who will speak about her well-received book, The Believers, on September 9. On September 13, families of all ages are invited to American Girl: Meet Rebecca Rubin with author Jacqueline Dembar Greene. The premiere of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, A Radio Play by Meyer Levin, will be performed on September 14. Following the performance, author Cynthia Ozick, historian Neil Baldwin, and others will discuss the controversy surrounding the play and its fall into obscurity. Novelist Dara Horn will discuss her latest book, All Other Nights, on September 16 with Tablet Magazine’s Alana Newhouse.

In conjunction with the special exhibition Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, a panel of leading academics will discuss Racial Laws: Nuremberg & Jim Crow on October 14; and on October 28, Professor Stephen H. Norwood will talk about his groundbreaking work The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses.

The Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present the world premiere of their new work Tribe, as part of Nextbook’s Jewish Body Festival on October 21. On October 25, author Hans J. Sternberg will discuss his memoir We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux’s and Maison Blanche Department Stores with author Eli N. Evans.”

For more information on these programs, consult the Museum of Jewish Heritage.