Publisher's Synopsis
The 1st collection of British and Irish Jewish writing for over 2 decades. This anthology includes the writings of: Anita BrooknerElaine Finestein, Eva Figes, Dan Jacobsen, Howard Jacobsen, Gabriel Josopovici, Harold Pinter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Bernice Rubens, Clive Sinclair and George Steiner. The multiple voice of contemporary, British and Irish-Jewish fiction is given full expression in this unique anthology. It explores hitherto unfamiliar Jewishness of certain household names as well as a formidable array of native Jewish writers, emigresand exiles, and feminist and post-modernist voices, all of whom have brought great Imagination and understanding to the Jewish experience in Britain and Ireland.
