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Fall 1987/5748
In this issue: JAP-baiting on campus—it’s an epidemic of graffiti and abuse; students grapple with Jewish stereotypes; how Syracuse University confronted the problem. The passionate legacy of Malka Heifetz Tussman, Yiddish poet. Jewish women/Jewish men: why do many Jews see themselves (and each other) as dull partners? The writing on the wall: the prescient German Jewish women who saw what was coming.
“JAP”-Baiting on the College Scene
Sherry Chayat
Where--and why--the stereotypes about Jewish women are still flourishing. How they've damaged our self-esteem and relations between the sexes.
- JAP-Baiting on the College Scene by Sherry Chayat
- The Graffiti Wars by Judith Allen Rubenstein
- Blazes of Truth by Susan Schnur
Reading the Writing on the Wall
by Claudia Koonz
As the Nazis consolidated their power in the 1930’s, German Jewish women sensed the threat sooner and saw it as more dangerous than the men did. Historian Koonz sorts out the reasons.
Jewish Women/Jewish Men Detoxifying Our Relationships
by Susan Weidman Schneider
Many Jews see themselves (and each other) as asexual and passionless. Ethnotherapist Perel tells us why these and other negative in-group images and ambivalent feelings about Jewish identity lead Jewish women and men to reject each other.
Mother Nature and Human Nature: The poetry of “Malka Heifetz Tussman”
by Marcia Falk
One of the Many gifted women of her generation writing in Yiddish, Tussman—who died last spring at 91—is remembered here by a younger poet. An added attraction: Falk’s translation of Tussman’s poetry.
What Remains is Random
fiction by Norma Fain Pratt
Taking the Law into Our Own Hands
by A.C.
Announcing a new column where women can pose questions abut their own lives which they feel require halachic (Jewish legal) responses. The religious arbiters creating the answers will be all women scholars—a first!