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Fall 2011
In this issue: Susan Schnur celebrates the Jewish women’s stories revealed in Lilith’s 35 years of publishing memoir. A female view of male circumcision, complete with ambivalence. Reconsidering Jewish sororities as surprising feminist precursors for social justice work! Saying Yizkor for a marriage. A short story moves a Russian mail-order bride from her shtetl to the Dakota prairie.
Cats & Angels
poetry by Rae Rose
Yizkor for a Marriage
by Gail Hosking
He cheats. She mourns. The unexpected solace from a Jewish way of handling loss.
Celebrating 35 Years of Jewish Women’s Stories
by Susan Schnur
Why do Jewish women write memoir? A guided tour through the life stories revealed in Lilith’s pages — by women like, and very unlike, yourself.
A (Re)Consideration of Jewish Sororities
by Shira Kohn
Flying in the face of the stereotypes, Kohn claims they could be precursors for social justice work.
Guiding My Child Through Cancer
by Allison Flash
A rabbi/mom morphed five Jewish principles into rituals for pulling herself and her daughter through a hellish year.
Mail-Order Bride: from Russia to the Dakota Prairie
fiction by Anna Solomon
A Woman’s View of Circumcision
by Elana Maryles Sztokman
This traditional Jewish rite of passage is how we welcome newborn boys. Now, it’s also inciting both anti-Semitism and a big dose of feminist ambivalence.
Linda K. Kerber on “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s”
Elizabeth C. Denlinger on “Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires”
Leah Koenig on “The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic”
Wendy Wisner on “Home/Birth: A Poemic”
Sara N. S. Meirowitz on “My Before and After Life”
Hadar Makov-Hasson on “And This Is the Light [Vehu ha’or]”
Yona Zeldis McDonough on “Russian Winter”
Marina Blitshteyn on “Traveling Light”