Writers' Block
WRITERS' BLOCK Estelle Gilson ("Will Today's Woman Join Hadassah?" p. 28) is a contributing editor of Present Tense and Columbia, Columbia University's magazine. Her essays on Jewish issues appear...
...Eva Hoffman ("A Child's Journey from Cracow," p. 44) is an editor for the New York Times Book Review...
...She also wrote "Thou Shalt Get Married (Already...
...His 1969 book, The Leo Frank Case, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award from the Saturday Review...
...I burnished the sentences of my prose so that each might stand, I said (with the arrogance of the desperately humiliated), for 20 years...
...Jacobs has recorded a "talking book" for the Jewish Braille Institute...
...In her book, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (E.P...
...Hoffman has taught literature and has written on a variety of cultural subjects...
...Betty S. Jacobs ("Teach Ypur Children—All Your Children," p/34), writer and educator, enjoys "turning youngsters on to Judaism" at a Hebrew school in Manhattan...
...Dutton, 1989), she reflects on her emigration from Poland and the conflicts of her bicultural identity...
...Formerly finance correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, Barrons and other financial publications...
...in the October 1988 issue of MOMENT...
...Historian Leonard Dinnerstein ("When Henry Ford Apologized to the Jews," p. 20) has written and lectured widely on anti-Semitism in the United States, the history of U.S...
...She won the Rea Award for a short story in 1986, received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983, and was a 1982 Guggenheim Fellow...
...Pinhas Landau, ("Why Has Israel Missed Out on the Global Economic Boom...
...I was a haunted punctuator, possessed stylist, sorter of ideas, burrower into history, philosophy, criticism...
...Her most recent book is The Shawl (Knopf, 1989...
...And no one would publish me," she writes in Metaphor and Memory (Knopf, 1989), a collection of her essays on her methods of writing...
...Her essays on Jewish issues appear frequently in Jewish publications, where she has profiled Nobel laureates I. I. Rabi and Joshua Lederberg, New York Times executive editor Max Frankel, and author and critic Irving Howe...
...She has written for Kosher Gourmet, Jewish Action, the New York Jewish Week and the Los Angeles Jewish Times...
...Other books include Messiah of Stockholm (Knopf, 1987), The Cannibal Galaxy (Knopf 1983), Art and Ardor (Knopf, 1983), Levitation (Knopf, 1982), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (Knopf, 1976) Trust (Dutton, 1983...
...I wrote midnight poetry into the morning light...
...p. 40), is a freelance economic journalist in Israel...
...Renowned writer and critic Cynthia Ozick ("The Translator Becoming the Poet," p. 50) had her first book, The Pagan Rabbi (Knopf, 1971), published when she was 43...
...A professor of»history at the University of Arizona, Dinnerstein's most recent book is Uneasy at Home: Anti-Semitism and the American Jewish Experience (Columbia Univ...
...It's possible that by the time you read this, she will have been to her first Hadassah brunch...
...Ozick went on to publish seven more works of fiction and non-fiction...
...The London-born Landau, who was educated at the London School of Economics, has lived in Israel since 1976...
...Press, 1987...
...immigration and assimilation, and the Jews of the American South...
Vol. 15 • February 1990 • No. 1
