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    Deb­o­rah Schoeneman

    Deb­o­rah Schoen­e­man, is a for­mer Eng­lish teacher/​Writing Across the Cur­ricu­lum Cen­ter Coor­di­na­tor at North Shore Hebrew Acad­e­my High School and coed­i­tor of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture: A Library of Lit­er­ary Crit­i­cism, Vol. VI, pub­lished in 1997.
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    Mary Glick­man
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    Norbert Hirschhorn
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    Noah Blaustein
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    Timothy Jay Smith
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    Jeanne Kalogridis
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    Ali­cia Ostriker
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    Curt Leviant
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    Ger­ald Stern
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    Rick Hilles
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    Miron C. Izakson; Betsy Rosenberg and Richard Sherwin, trans.
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    Moshe Dor; Barbara Goldberg, trans.
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    Debra L. Winegarten
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    Sarah Stern
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