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
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