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Jews of Another Planet
“There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. Its horror can never be fully embraced by the imagination for the very reason that it stands outside of life and death. It can never be fully reported for the very reason that the survivor returns to the world of the living, which make […]
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
Summary Yet another example of speculative Jewish fiction, Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer asks the following question: What if Anne Frank did survive and was the mistress of a great Jewish-American author? The novel begins with Nathan at E.I. Lonoff’s Berkshire home. The famed Jewish-American author, Lonoff lives the life of a recluse, with his […]
Dr. Cheryl Spinner received a PhD from Duke University in English and a certificate in Feminist Studies. Her interests include visual culture, early photography, 19th-century and early 20th-century American literature, and the digital humanities. Electric Ladies Zap is where she writes about things. 
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