Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on October 13, 2014

Molly Antopols debut short story collection, The Un-Americans, tells stories of Jews divided by geography but united by history. (Courtesy Molly Antopol)

A Jewish-American dry cleaner who who hadnt thought much about his grandfathers escape from the Cossacks in Kiev falls in love with a client who turns out to be from Kiev.

A grandmother in New York one day tells her granddaughter how she fled the Nazis through a sewer tunnel when she was a child, and how her quiet grandfather led the equally filthy teenage resistance group she joined.

These are some of the story lines from Molly Antopols short story collection The Un-Americans, long-listed for the National Books Awards.

The collection spans as the New York Times put it the entire Ashkenazi Jewish universe, from New York to Belarus to Israel, with ancestors watching from their graves as another writes.

Antopol joins Here & Nows Robin Young to talk about her debut collection.

Read the original:

Short Stories Exploring The Jewish Experience

Category: Ashkenazi
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