by Aviva Cantor

Evelyn Torton Beck

Lilith interview

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Evelyn Torton Beck, whose article on “LB. Singer’s Misogyny” appeared in LILITH #6, teaches an array of women’s studies courses and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her most recent work has been to edit the collection Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, just published by Persephone Press, a feminist publishing house in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Winter 1982-1983

Double issue! Fiction and poetry by Jewish women writers from across the world. Cynthia Ozick on Torah as the matrix for feminism. Plus: Lilith’s first survey of Jewish women.

Battling Sexism in Jewish Schools

by Susan Weidman Schneider

Surviving Siberia

by Glenn Richter and Reena Sigman Friedman

Evelyn Torton Beck

by Aviva Cantor

Summer 2020

Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Evelyn Torton Beck

Lilith interview

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