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 | | For many writers, the relationships between Jewish mothers and fathers and their loving, often exasperating children can be powerful lenses for understanding oneself and one's world: a son's future faith can be contained in his mother's past; the shifting of a parent's political ideals can be revealed through a playground incident with her child. |
 | | Their factual and fictional dispatches from the places to which they felt deeply connected often became the defining literary visions of those far-flung placesit's impossible to envision Odessa, for example, without seeing the world Isaac Babel sketched. |
 | | In fiction and in philosophy, in the global fight against anti-Semitism, and in the local effort to build decent nations and communities, Jewish books and writers have been part of the struggle to make a better world. |
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