Two On the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams

Two on the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams is a biography of the authors parents Nathan and Dorothy Horowitz as well as a twentieth century American cultural history. The story describes how two offspring of Eastern European immigrants combined a struggle for material security with literary efforts that blended Yiddish-flavored humor social compassion religious devotion and secular concerns with piercing meditations on lifes disappointments and fragility. While sampling fragments of the couples three-act play that enjoyed a brief run off-Broadway in the 1950s and excerpts from published poetry short stories sketches and essays Two on the Aisle draws on a vast archive of correspondence journal entries and unpublished work to offer distinctive insights into modern Jewish and American cultural identity.