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Author:

Aylon, Heléne, 1931-

Title:

Whatever is contained must be released : my Jewish orthodox girlhood, my life as a feminist artist / Helène Aylon.

Publisher:

Feminist Press at the City University of New York,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Aylon, Heléne,--1931-
Aylon, Helène,--1931-
Jews--New York--New York--Biography.
Jewish women--New York--New York--Biography.
Painters--New York--New York--Biography.
Jewish painters--New York--New York--Biography.
Jewish painters.
Jewish women.
Jews.
Painters.
New York (State)--New York.
Biography.

Summary:

The author recounts how, after being widowed at thirty, she broke free of Orthodox Jewish tradition to become an eco-feminist artist.
"Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Heléne Aylon spends her Friday nights in a sea of extended family as the Sabbath candles flicker. She dreams of escape but marries a rabbi and becomes a mother of two. Suddenly her world splits apart when she is widowed at thirty. Aylon finds a home in the burgeoning environmental art scene of the 1970s--creating transgressive works that explore identity, women's bodies, the environment, disarmament, and the notion of God. Eventually she asks of Judaism what she never dared to ask as a child: Where are the women?" -- Publisher's description

Series:

The Reuben/Rifkin Jewish women writers series

ISBN:

155861768X
9781558617681

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709681252

LCCN:

2011043068

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)