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

Winter 2018-9

Money and meaning, from teaching Hebrew school to funding abortion. Three miscarriages and a crisis of faith. Candidates who didn’t win. When your family breaks up with you (or vice versa).

Fall 2018

Latinx, Jewish, running for office • Alleged victims of a pediatrician find each other • Is motherhood new again? • A second chance at an old relationship • How to care for children without parents •

Summer 2018

Jewish women running for office. When food endangered Jews. The challenge of raising liberal kids in Israel. A Moroccan Jew finds common ground with Muslim feminists in Tangier. The proud history of midwives?

Spring 2018

#MeToo in Jewish organizations? A girl encounters her sperm-donor half-siblings. The Skokie teenager who crushed on Jesus. What can you toss after a parent dies? Repairing women’s torn bodies in Rwanda.

Savoring Words about Words

Language as intoxicant, and as home

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