Israel and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination: Introduction

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Naomi Sokoloff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. She is the author of Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and has co-edited two books: Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (JTSA, 1992) and Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1994).