The Library of Moloch

Melvin Jules Bukiet

1986

Most witnesses told their stories voluntarily. These stories were equivalent to their souls yet they were willing to donate them to the Library of Moloch because they believed that to tell was to verify a past that had become dreamlike even to themselves. And after all, they were people of the book. Of course, the form was strange, but they had…

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Melvin Jules Bukiet

b. 1953

Born in New York City, Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of several novels and collections of short stories that often contain Jewish historical motifs. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and is also an editor and literary critic. Bukiet received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was named to the National Book Critics’ Circle Recommended Reading List in 1995.

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