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Eileen Pollack

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Eileen Pollack
Pollack at a book signing event in Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 2012
Pollack at a book signing event in Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 2012
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University
University of Iowa (MFA)
Notable awardsRona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (1996)
Website
eileenpollack.com

Eileen Pollack (born 1956) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the former director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan. Pollack holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University and an M.F.A in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 1996.

She currently divides her time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Manhattan.

Pollack's The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories (1991) features an Old-World male rabbi and his leftist female successor, and is among the early works of American Jewish literature to prominently feature the inclusion of women rabbis as literary figures.[1]

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  1. ^ Zierler, W. (2006). A dignitary in the land? Literary representations of the American rabbi. AJS Review, 30(2), 255-275.
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