by Ellen Feldman

In the Wake of War

Two Novels of Memory

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The question is not why we keep writing about the Holocaust, but how to keep writing about the Holocaust so that others will pay attention. In Displaced Persons (William Morrow, $25.99), a profoundly moving novel about a group of tightly intertwined survivors in New York and Israel, Ghita Schwarz approaches the unfathomable and unspeakable horror obliquely, as remembered by those who lived through it.

Spring 2012

Deaf Jewish women make themselves heard. Remembering Paula Hyman. Feminism and Judaism collide and cohabit. An immigrant daughter reflects on being green, and a greeneh.

Is The Statue of Liberty Jewish?

by Alexandra Gold

Paula Hyman (1946–2011)

edited by Rachel Kranson

Deaf Daughters

by Jennifer Rosner

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.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Spring 2019

“Unfaithful,” the theme of 3 prize-winning short stories • Israel’s little-known School for Peace and the woman who created it • The new questions those male policy-makers didn’t know to ask

In the Wake of War

Two Novels of Memory

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