
20th Century Jewish Lives
These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
Florence McCloud is a poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Green Mountains Review, West Wind Review and Iris, among others. A back porch gardener who loves the flowering of ideas and literature, she likes to include background on author, period, as well as elements of the book, but most of all seeks to engage readers in new ways of looking at a book. Her interests include social history and politics, as well as literature.
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These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
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