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Subject(s)

• Short stories, Jewish [Browse]
• Short stories, American [Browse]
• American fiction—Jewish authors [Browse]
• American fiction—Women authors [Browse]
• Jewish women—Fiction [Browse]
• Feminism—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• Schneider, Susan Weidman [Browse]
• McDonough, Yona Zeldis [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Short stories [Browse]

Series

HBI series on Jewish women [More in this series]

Summary note

• "An anthology of the best of feminist Jewish short stories published in Lilith Magazine by well-known and less-well known authors from all over the world"-- Provided by publisher.
• "A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith Magazine and does what no other collection has done before in its geographic scope. It showcases a wide range of stories offering variegated cultures and contexts and points of view: Persian Jews; a Biblical matriarch; an Ethiopian mother in modern Israel; suburban American teens; Eastern European academics; a sexual questioner; a Jew by choice; a new immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop; a Black Jewish marcher for justice; in Vichy France, a toddler's mother hiding out; and more. Organized by theme, the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content. Readers will appreciate the liveliness of burgeoning self-awareness captured in each tale, and the occasional funny, call-your-friend-and-tell-her-about-it moment. Skip around, encounter an author whose other writing you may know, be enticed by a title, or an opening line. You will find both pleasure and enlightenment-and even perhaps revelation-within these pages"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Foreword
• Introduction
• The Stories
• 1. TRANSITIONS
• The New World / Esther Singer Kreitman (translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav)
• In Every Girl's Heart / Myla Goldberg
• In Vegas That Year / Adrienne Sharp
• A Wedding in Persia / Gina Nahai
• News to Turn the World / Katie Singer
• Sylvia's Spoon / Michelle Brafman
• Max's Mom Goes to Camp / Judith Zimmer
• My Daughter's Boyfriends / Penny Jackson
• Unveiling / Racelle Rosett
• 2. INTIMACIES
• 1919: At the Connecticut Shore / Jane Lazarre
• The Curiosa Section / Harriet Goldman
• Glass / Diana Spechler
• The Wedding Photographer's Assistant / Ilana Stanger-Ross
• The List of Plagues / Audrey Ferber
• Road Kill / Miryam Sivan
• Probabilities / Elizabeth Edelglass
• Sound Effects / Michele Ruby
• The A -Train to Scotland / Ellen Umansky
• 3. TRANSGRESSIONS
• Lot's Wife / Michal Lemberger
• Paved with Gold / Beth Kanter
• Driving Lesson / Kate Schmier
• Little Hen / Emily Alice Katz
• The Proper Care of Silver / Emily Franklin
• Boundaries / Ilene Raymond Rush
• Face Me / Elena Sigman
• Zhid / Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Deep in the Valley / Cherise Wolas
• 4. WAR
• La Poussette / Rachel Hall
• The Fronds of Knives / Rebecca Givens Rolland
• Street of the Deported / Anca L. Szilágyi
• Facts on the Ground / Ruchama King Feuerman
• 5. BODY AND SOUL
• The Lives under the Stones / Amy Bitterman
• Do Not Punish Us / Chana Blankshteyn (translated from the Yiddish by Anita Norich)
• Working the Mikveh / Amy Gottlieb
• Ironing / Sarah Seltzer
• What Was Cut / Beth Kanell
• Flash Flood / Hila Amit (translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Kurshan)
• All That Remains of Etta / Erica W. Jamieson
• The Neowise Comet Listens In / Carolivia Herron
• 6. TO BELONG
• Flight / Phyllis Caron Agins
• The Miscreants / Tamar Ben-Ozer
• Home / Zeeva Bukai
• The Woman Who Lost Her Names / Nessa Rapoport
• Raised by Jews / Naomi Seidman
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Questions For Discussion.

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Other title(s)

Lilith (New York, N.Y.)

ISBN

• 9781684581269
• 1684581265 (paperback)

LCCN

2022018488

OCLC

1327604922

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