Framing the Past

  • Matthew Frye Jacobson
    Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Harvard University Press
  • Henry Lilienheim
    The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-torn Europe. DC Books
Reviewed by Norman Ravvin
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This review “Framing the Past” originally appeared in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 149-152.

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