Poetry

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Leah Wolff, Impossible Shape 12b, 2012, watercolor and pastel on paper, 9 x 12 in.

Poetry

The articles in this special section:

My Grandfather Changes His Last Name

poetry by Penny Perry

Chet

poetry by Sheri Allen

Always a Desert

poetry by Gili Haimovich, translated from the Hebrew by Dara Barnat

Winter 2013-2014

The politics of paradox—finding Jewish meaning in unexpected places: a white, middle-class mom turned civil rights pioneer, a bacon sandwich, and a dirndl dress.

Wednesdays in Mississippi

by Holly Cowan Shulman

How Not to Trust

by Rachel Maizes

Four Photographs of Rukhl

by Miriam Isaacs

Fall 2020

Did Alzheimers Turn My Husband into an Anti-Semite? • Parenting in the Pandemic • Objects and Their Hidden Lives • Forgiveness: When is it Possible?

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