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spring exhibit

Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective

Gathering these materials was a fascinating experience. Although I am first-generation American, the daughter of two Holocaust refugees, I began with only knowledge of American Jewish writers. Curating this exhibit took me on a journey through bibliographies and anthologies, through the Internet, and on endless trips through the stacks of this library, wheeling loaded book trucks into my overflowing office. I realized that my family, my Jewish family, represents the trajectories of twentieth-century Jewish migration and gained deeper insight into my own past. Surely an exhibit of this scope could fill a hundred cases instead of the ten available here. Hence this exhibit can only be an introduction, a sampling of the vast diversity of global Jewish literature created in the twentieth century. Enjoy! --Irene Reti This exhibit provides a sampling of the diversity of global Jewish literature. Feel free to use this list of authors as a guide to begin exploring its richness.

Australia

Lily Brett

Moris Lurie

David Martin

Judah Waten

Rose Zwi

Fay Zwicky

Canada

Leonard Cohen

Phyllis Gotlieb

George Jonas

A.M. Klein

Rachel Korn

Irving Layton

Eli Mandel

Joe Rosenblatt

Miriam Waddington

Tom Wayman

Europe

Hannah Arendt

Liliane Atlan

Maria Banus

Walter Benjamin

Max Brod

Joseph Brodsky

Nina Cassian

Paul Celan

Lion Feuchtwanger

Milan Fust

Henryk Grynberg

Eugene Heimler

Arthur Koestler

Else Lasker-Schuler

Miklos Radnoti

Andre Spire

Julian Tuwim

Aleksander Wat

Jakob Wasserman

Stefan Zweig

India

Nissim Ezekiel

Israel

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Aharon Appelfeld

T. Carmi

Zerubavel Gilead

Leah Goldberg

Shulamith Hareven

Amos Oz

Dalia Ravikovitch

Abraham B. Yehoshua

Latin America

Marjorie Agosin

Homero Aridjis

Isaac Chocron

Alberto Gerchunoff

Margo Glantz

Isaac Goldemberg

Clarice Lispector

Angelina Muniz-Huberman

Victor Perera

Moacyr Scliar

Ilan Stavans

Mario Szichman

Cesar Tiempo

South Africa

Lionel Abrahams

Charles Brasch

Jillian Becker

Shirley Eskapa

Dan Jacobson

Rose Zwi

United States

Saul Bellow

Allen Ginsberg

Joanne Greenberg

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Irena Klepfisz

Tony Kushner

Leslea Newman

Cynthia Ozick

Grace Paley

Adrienne Rich

Henry Roth

Muriel Rukeyser

Yiddish

Sholom Aleichem

S. Ansky

Chaim Grade

Rachel Korn

Yitshak Peretz

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Anthologies

Ribalow, Harold Uriel A Treasury of American Jewish Stories UCSC McHenry PS647.J4R48

Uffen, Ellen Serlen Strands of the cable the Place of the Past in Jewish American Women1s Writing UCSC McHenry PS153.J4U34 1992

Jewish Perspectives 25 years of Modern Jewish Writing , selected and edited by Jacob Sonntag UCSC McHenry PN6067.J43

Shaked, Gershon The Shadows Within Essays on Modern Jewish Writers UCSC McHenry PN842.S53 1987

Ribalow, Harold Uriel The Tie that Binds : Conversations with Jewish Writers UCSC McHenry PS153.J4R5

Voices within the Ark the Modern Jewish Poets edited by Howard Schwartz & Anthony Rudolf UCSC McHenry PN6109.5.V6 1980

Tropical Synagogues Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers edited, and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans

Anderson, Elliott. Contemporary Israeli Literature an Anthology UCSC McHenry PJ5059.E1A53 1977

Never Say Die! a Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish life and Letters edited by Joshua A. Fishman UCSC McHenry PJ5111.N4

Liptzin, Solomon A History of Yiddish Literature UCSC McHenry PJ5120.L55 1985

Leftwich, Joseph An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Literature UCSC McHenry PJ5191.E1L43

Kahn, Lothar. Between Two Worlds a Cultural History of German-Jewish Writers UCSC McHenry PT169.K34

Jewish identities in the New Europe/ edited by Jonathan Webber UCSC McHenry DS135.E83J5 1994

Women of Exile: German-Jewish autobiographies since 1933 edited by Andreas Lixl-Purcell UCSC McHenry DS135.G5A18 1988

South African Jewish voices general editors, Robert & Roberta Kalechofsky. NRLF B 3 554 837

Patai, Raphael The Vanished Worlds of Jewry Raphael Patai; picture research by Eugene Rosow with Vivian Kleiman. 1st American ed. New York : Macmillan, 1980. UCSC McHenry DS134.P39 1980

Handbook of American-Jewish literature an analytical guide to topics, themes, and sources Lewis Fried, editor-in-chief UCSC McHenry PS153.J4H365 1988

Kahn, Lothar Mirrors of the Jewish mind; a Gallery of Portraits of European Jewish Writers of our Time UCSC McHenry DS143.K27

Jewish-American Stories / edited and with an introduction by Irving Howe UCSC McHenry PS647.J4J4

Sarah's Daughters Sing a Sampler of Poems by Jewish Women UCSC McHenry PN6109.5.S27 1990

Alter, Robert Defenses of the Imagination : Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis UCSC McHenry PN842.A4

Women of the Word: Jewish women and Jewish writing / edited by Judith R. Baskin.

UCSC McHenry PN842 .W66 1994

Nadel, Ira Bruce Jewish Writers of North America : a Guide to Information Sources UCSC McHenry Z1229.J4N32 Reference

Guttmann, Allen The Jewish writer in America; assimilation and the crisis of identity UCSC McHenry PS153.J4G8

Harap, Louis In the Mainstream the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century American literature, 1950s-1980s UCSC McHenry PS153.J4H37 1987

Periodicals

Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends UCSC McHenry HQ1101.B75

Judaism [New York] American Jewish Congress. UCSC McHenry BM1.J8

fall exhibit

Student Voices: Three Decades Strong

The exhibit celebrates thirty years of UCSC student expression and includes poster art, t-shirts, research papers, books, journals, arm bands, newspapers, and more.

We are proud to present "Student Voices: Three Decades Strong," an exhibit featuring the works of UCSC students. While compiling matrials for this exhibit, we defined "works" in as broad a manner as possible. Students have put a great effort into making this campus what it is today and those efforts can't always be tangibly measured. Consider those who volunteer to tutor kids in Beach Flats, those who mentor in Seaside, countless who tell stories carrying campus events around the globe.

The past thirty years have witnessed enormous social and cultural change. Founded in 1965, UCSC was conceived and born into the quiet and relative affluence of the early Sixties. No one could have imagined the tremendous social and political shifts that were to shake the world within a few short years. The tumultuous Sixties and early Seventies soon arrived in a wave which transformed the campus community. The impassioned spirit of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement during that era filtered into every aspect of campus social life, altering everything from hair to curriculum. By October 1970 The Black Flag Bulletin #1, published by the anarchist revolutionary movement would editorialize, "We know the problems that concern us: racism, imperialism, ecology. What do we do about them here? We sit in our seminars and intellectualize (impress each other with our command of vocabulary) about Mesopotamian culture or the 19th century French novel."

The activism of the Anti-War movement helped give birth to the early Feminist movement on campus in the mid-to-late Seventies. This movement fought for the establishment of Women's Studies, the tenure of Nancy Shaw, and organized one of the first Take Back the Night marches against violence against women to take place on any college campus in the United States. The Seventies and Eighties also saw the rise of the Lesbian and Gay movement, a movement which has been particularly strong at UC Santa Cruz. The Anti-Apartheid and Anti-Nuclear movements have also been potent forces at UCSC. Teach-ins, rallies, sit-ins, and marches have long been a vital part of the UCSC student community. This activism and involvement also carried over into students' concern for community issues such as farmworker rights, housing and health conditions for Beach Flats residents, and preserving the natural environment of Santa Cruz County. Even the endearing efforts to preserve the Banana Slug as UCSC's beloved mascot in the late 1980s are a testament to the strength of the UCSC student voice. When UC Santa Cruz opened its doors in September 1965 there were no students of color on campus. The efforts in the past thirty years by students of color and their allies to diversify this campus and its curriculum are reflected in this exhibit. That activism continues in the Nineties with the struggle to preserve affirmative action and ethnic studies programs, and prevent budget and program cuts.

But not all is politics at UCSC. Flourishing alongside this tremendous activism is a plethora of literary journals and newspapers. Over the years UCSC, students have published an astonishing number of diverse literary journals. From the sublime, to the ridiculous, to the educationalÜall these publications have one thing in common: a commitment to the free expression of the student voice in all its tenors and variations. These literary journals produced finely crafted, elegant, and honest prose and poetry by UCSC students. From the fine printing of the austere Observations, to the edgy computer graphic zine Waffle, students have uniformly articulated their passion for expressive literature. Books like Between the Lines: a Pacific/Asian Lesbian anthology have made groundbreaking contributions to world literature. Newspapers such as City on a Hill Press, Leviathan and Twanas continue to publish high-quality journalism. And not to be overlooked are the musical, theatrical, and artistic creative achievements of UCSC students represented here.

The journey the three of us took through the archives of Special Collections here at McHenry Library to put this exhibit together was a journey through time, through thirty years of activism and expression, folders upon folders of posters, flyers, newsletters, journals, and photographs. What you see represented in this exhibit is only a small sampling of that journey and we invite those of you with specific interests in this material to pursue those interests more in depth in the Library's collection.

The students who began their education here on that opening day in September 1965 are now turning fifty. The world is not the same. UC Santa Cruz has evolved from a few trailers and many dreams to a full-fledged research university with many accomplished graduates. But many of those graduates treasure their years at UCSC and the environment which both nourished and altered their intellect and spirit. This exhibit is a tribute to that spirit. May it endure.

--Deborah Turner, Rob Guillen, Irene Reti

A Gallery of Images from the Student Voices Exhibit

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