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Fran Manushkin
Poor Marjorie Morningstar!
When I was a teenager, I read Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar. Poor Marjorie! She gave her virginity away before marriage and was made to pay for her mistake. Poor me! I believed that Marjorie deserved to be punished! I also remember envying her Central Park West existence, with its horseback riding. I thought all Jewish girls were supposed to live that way, and that I had gone astray with my choice of parents (working class) and my home (Chicago).
Fran Manushkin is the author of Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story, The Matzah That Papa Brought Home, and Starlight and Candles: The Joys of the Sabbath. Miriam’s Cup, about the prophet Miriam, will be published for Passover 1998.
Sugar & Spice – and Beyond
The articles in this special section:Poor Marjorie Morningstar!
Fran Manushkin
Books for the 90s
Sara N.S. Meirowitz
Powerful Adolescent Girls
Naomi Danis
Jewish (But Not Feminist)
Sara N.S. Meirowitz
Feminist (But Not Jewish)
Sara N.S. Meirowitz
Finding Else Ury’s Suitcase at Auschwitz
Anne L. Fox
Israeli Bedtime Stories
Nava Semel
Roseanne (Yes!) on Yidn in Utah
Roseanne
At Last, Jewish Fairy Tales
Jane Yolen
Jewish Before I Was American
Norma Simon
Deborah & Letty
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Please Write One More…
Elizabeth Michaelson
The Book under My Pillow
Leslea Newman
Girls Who Thought about Sex
Barbara Brenner
Searching for Jewish Clues
Johanna Hurwitz
Jewish Rabbits
Rachel Kadish
The Impact of Reality
Yona Zeldis McDonough
God Will Have to Allow It
Esther Hautzig
Sarah Was My Soulmate
Rebecca Goldstein
Uh oh! Babar Celebrates Christmas
Michelle Edwards
Something Good from Hebrew School
Gila Gevirtz
On Yom Kippur When My Stomach Growls
Lisa Pilar Cowan
Safe in America
Paula J. Caplan
So I Had to Write it Myself
Floreva G. Cohen
They were all Orthodox
Deborah Brodie