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Title:

Joining the sisterhood : young Jewish women write their lives / edited by Tobin Belzer and Julie Pelc.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

ix, 227 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Jewish authors.
American literature--Women authors.
Jewish women--United States.
Young women--United States.
Jewish women.--Poetry.
Young women--Poetry.

Other Authors:

Belzer, Tobin.
Pelc, Julie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

PART III. NESHAMAH: OUR EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL SELVES -- Making love on the Deutsche Bahn (essay) / Ruth A. Abusch-Magder Questions (poem) / Melanie Leitner -- Ground contemplation prayer (essay) / Leah Berger -- Singing praises (essay) / Shoshana M. Friedman -- God lives in the Himalayas (essay) / Leanne Lieberman -- Yom Kippur in Ecuador (Me and the virgin) (poem) / Aleza Eve Kaufman Summit -- Where the mountain touches the sky (essay) / Vered Hankin -- Sister (poem) / Alana Suskin -- Mazel: the luck of the Irish (essay) / Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith -- PART II. NEFESH: OURSELVES IN RELATION TO OUR BODIES -- Blessings in boxes (essay) / Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer -- At home in my own skin (essay) / Clara Thaler -- Boiled beet (poem) / Anna Swanson -- Who is a Jew? (essay) / Loolwa Khazzoom -- The Kibbutz (1989) (poem) / Deborah Preg -- When you're looking for G-d, go home (essay) / Jessie Heller-Frank -- Orange (poem) / Andrea Gottlieb -- A woman of valor, who can find (essay) / Julie Pelc -- PART III. NESHAMAH: OUR EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL SELVES -- Chutzpah and Menschlekeit: negotiating identity in Jerusalem (essay) / Caryn Aviv -- Passages (poem) / Leah Berger -- Meeting in the middle (essay) / Lynne Meredith Schreiber -- Secret weapon (poem) / Amy Elisabeth Bokser -- Ira Glass, where are you? (essay) / Tobin Belzer -- Stepping eastward (essay) / Daveena Tauber -- Making love on the Deutsche Bahn (essay) / Ruth A. Abusch-Magder

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

ISBN:

9780791458624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791458628 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791458617 (alk. paper)
079145861X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51305722

LCCN:

2002045256

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)