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Catherine Daligga

Catherine Daligga, a doctoral candidate in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, plans to write her dissertation on American and French autobiographical narratives about World War II written between 1960 and 1980.

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"Atlas Shrugged" Front Cover by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American Jewish author and philosopher. Her most famous novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), promote her philosophy of ethics called “Objectivism.”
"An Estate of Memory" by Ilona Karmel

Ilona Karmel

Ilona Karmel transformed details of her experiences as a Polish-Jewish prisoner in Nazi work camps and as a patient undergoing a prolonged convalescence into two compelling and memorable novels. Karmel was a distinguished writer, winning a fiction contest from Mademoiselle and teaching awards from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Catherine Daligga." (Viewed on October 1, 2023) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/daligga-catherine>.

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