Here I am is a premier collection of comtemporary Jewish short stories from around the world, spanning six continents and twenty.four countries. Contriburtors include Cynthia Ozick, Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Nadine Gordimer, and Allegra Goodman, as well as many authors never published in English.
The need for such an anthology has never been more timely; the end of the Cold War and the immediacy of the World Wide Web hace unleashed a torrent of dialogue with Jwes formerly isolated from the rest of the Jewish community.
Editors Marsha Lee Berkman and Elaine Marcus Starkman have compiled a stunning chorus of voices that articulate the evolving Jewish identity. Surprisingly, drastic differences in geography have done little to affect the basic themes of what it means to be a Jewish today: the hardship of living in the Diaspora, the specter of anti-Semitism, the fear of complete assimilation, and of lost heritage.
"[Here I am] is remarkable for the breath and variety of places and writers represented, with some surprising choices on both scores. It conveys a vividly fresh sense of the cultural meaning of diaspora and should be of keen interest to a wide spectrum of readers." -Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley.
* Esta contraportada corresponde a la edición de 1998. La Enciclopedia de la literatura en México no se hace responsable de los contenidos y puntos de vista vertidos en ella.
