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 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

Savoring Words about Words

Language as intoxicant, and as home

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