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Title Joining the sisterhood : young Jewish women write their lives / edited by Tobin Belzer and Julie Pelc
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages)
Series SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
Contents PART I. RUACH: OURSELVES IN RELATION TO OTHERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Bais Yaakov girl (essay) / Eve Rosenbaum -- Questions (poem) / Melanie Leitner -- Ground contemplation prayer (essay) / Leah Berger -- Singing praises (essay) / Shoshana M. Friedman -- God lives in the Himalayas (essay) / Leanne Lieberman -- Yom Kippur in Ecuador (Me and the virgin) (poem) / Aleza Eve Kaufman Summit -- Where the mountain touches the sky (essay) / Vered Hankin -- Sister (poem) / Alana Suskin -- Mazel: the luck of the Irish (essay) / Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith -- PART II. NEFESH: OURSELVES IN RELATION TO OUR BODIES -- Blessings in boxes (essay) / Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer -- At home in my own skin (essay) / Clara Thaler -- Boiled beet (poem) / Anna Swanson -- Who is a Jew? (essay) / Loolwa Khazzoom -- The Kibbutz (1989) (poem) / Deborah Preg -- When you're looking for G-d, go home (essay) / Jessie Heller-Frank -- Orange (poem) / Andrea Gottlieb -- A woman of valor, who can find (essay) / Julie Pelc -- PART III. NESHAMAH: OUR EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL SELVES -- Chutzpah and Menschlekeit: negotiating identity in Jerusalem (essay) / Caryn Aviv -- Passages (poem) / Leah Berger -- Meeting in the middle (essay) / Lynne Meredith Schreiber -- Secret weapon (poem) / Amy Elisabeth Bokser -- Ira Glass, where are you? (essay) / Tobin Belzer -- Stepping eastward (essay) / Daveena Tauber -- Making love on the Deutsche Bahn (essay) / Ruth A. Abusch-Magder
Summary Annotation Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today. A volume in the SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen, editor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject American literature -- Jewish authors.
American literature -- Women authors.
Jewish women -- United States
Young women -- United States.
Jewish women -- Poetry
Young women -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
American literature -- Jewish authors
American literature -- Women authors
Jewish women
Young women
United States
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Belzer, Tobin
Pelc, Julie
ISBN 1417538082
9781417538089
0791458628
9780791458624
079145861X
9780791458617
079148615X
9780791486153