Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
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Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Essays in Search of Home

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Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Essays in Search of Home

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Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S. L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she's sure that she hears Nazis at her bedroom window and knows that after they take her away, she'll die without her asthma meds. In her late twenties, she infiltrates sorority rush at her alma mater, curious about whether she'll get a bid now. Later in life, she makes her first and only trip to the mikvah while healing from a breast biopsy (benign this time), prompting an exploration of misogyny, shame, and woman-fear in rabbinical tradition.

With wit, verve, blood, scars, and a solid dose of self-deprecation, Wisenberg wanders across the expanse of continents and combs through history books and family records in her search for home and meaning. Her travels take her from Selma, Alabama, where her Eastern European Jewish ancestors once settled, to Vienna, where she tours Freud's home and figures out what women really want, and she visits Auschwitz, which—disappointingly—leaves no emotional mark.

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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781685750275
Topic
Teologia e religione
Subtopic
Biografie in ambito religioso

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advance Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Female Protection
  9. The Wandering Womb
  10. Grandmother Russia/Selma
  11. Notes on Camp
  12. Spy in the House of Girls
  13. The Year of the Knee Sock
  14. Separate Vacations
  15. Younger Men, Older Men
  16. Exercising the Past
  17. Halloween, Chicago
  18. French Yoga
  19. Mikvah: That Which Will Not Stay Submerged
  20. South Florida, Before
  21. The Jew in the Body
  22. The Land of Allergens
  23. Cream Puffs
  24. Late Night
  25. Up against It
  26. We Had Paris
  27. Luck: In the Valley
  28. Auschwitz: Like the Back of His Hand
  29. In Wroclaw, Formerly Breslau
  30. The Ambivalence of the One- Breasted Feminist
  31. Flood, Meyerland
  32. America: A Polemic
  33. Something to Sell
  34. A Traveler’s Lexicon
  35. The Romance of the Spiders
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Notes
  38. Resources
  39. Back Cover