by Hannah S. Pressman

Savoring Words about Words

Language as intoxicant, and as home

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Some of the very best writing can be about writing itself. Take, for example, the new anthology Hebrew Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press, $24.95), edited by Peter Cole, noted poet, translator, and MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The pieces assembled here, translated by Cole and several others, enable the English-reading audience to make the acquaintance of both prominent and lesser-known Hebrew writers.

Summer 2009

Feminist funerals. “In Treatment” – gender messages in those TV therapy sessions… Her father dies, and a daughter revisits his abandonment. Race and reconciliation: new fiction from Dara Horn and Jane Lazarre.

Gringa Guilt and Housework

by Janice Eidus

My Father’s Reckless Abandonment

by Yona Zeldis Mcdonough

Feminist Funerals

by Amy Stone

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.

Savoring Words about Words

Language as intoxicant, and as home

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