While many Jews have picked Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's because the pressures of life have always reminded him about his grandfather who mysteriously disappeared from the family twenty years ago. Now, while he tries to begin a family of his own, he also builds a relationship with the one person who might know the truth about his grandfather's disappearance: his grandmother. She's remained stubbornly reticent on the topic all these years, but when a familiar old man shows up at Glassman's office he...
While many Jews have picked Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's be...
Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To...
Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He...
An eloquent testament to the impact of the special places that exist both in the natural world and within our hearts. Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle Andrew Furman heard the siren call and headed south, where with the zeal of a new convert he became Florida s transplanted Thoreau. William McKeen, editor of Homegrown in Florida A wonderful book about enjoying everything our state has to offer. It s interesting that a new Floridian is showing old Floridians what Florida is all about. Jeff Klinkenberg, author of Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from...
An eloquent testament to the impact of the special places that exist both in the natural world and within our hearts. Richard Louv, author of The N...
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los Angeles was embroiled in efforts to desegregate its public school district, one of the largest and most segregated in the country. Tensions came to a head in the late 1970s as the state implemented its forced busing plan, a radical desegregation program that was hotly contested among Los Angeles residents particularly among Valley residents and...
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s, roughly half of Furman s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewi...
