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Spring 1991
In this issue: How filmmaker Gila Almagor emerges from her Holocaust survivor mother’s troubled past. The hidden dynamics of I.B. Singer’s literary family, followed by an autobiographical short story by the neglected sister. Why 12-step “recovery” programs fail women.
Nancy at 44
by Nancy Helman Shneiderman
Our correspondent, Nancy Helman Schneiderman, searches for a way to register an involuntary change: how to mark her hysterectomy.
Esther Singer Kreitman
by Clive Sinclair
An uncommon glimpse into sibling politics and the hidden dynamics of Eastern Europe’s famous literary family. Shy don’t we know about the sister?
The New World
by Esther Singer Kreitman translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav
An eerily autobiographical short story about a newborn daughter—an infant whose realities fail to live up to her own prenatal expectations
Singleminded
by Susan Shapiro
"Mom, I met a new man." The unexpurgated account of a single Jewish female's phone conversation with a mother who grows up too.
12 Stepping It: Women’s Roads to Recovery
"Recovery" literature and 12-Step heal-what-ails-you programs are keeping booksellers in business. But how well do they serve women when they encourage dependency instead of empowerment?
- A Psychologist Tells Why by Harriet Goldhor Lerner
- A Feminist Tells How by Gail Unterberger
Turing Life Into Art
Three Artists Reveal Themselves in Their Work: Ruth Weisberg, Nancy Grossman, Kathryn Jacoby
Gila Almagor
by Masha Leon
Israeli film star wrestles with her mother's demonic past
My Mayflower Moms: Sarah, Rebecca, Bella
by Julia Wood Kramer
Whose roots? Mayflower WASP Julia Wood Kramer tells what she’s learned about herself while tracing her Jewish husband’s family tree.
Eleanor J. Bader on “Olga”
Eleanor Wilner on “Without a Single Answer: Poems on Contemporary Israel”
PG on “A Hand in the Darkness the Autobiography of a Refusenik”
Julia Wolf Mazow on “Deep In The Heart The Lives & Legends Of Texas Jews” and “Pioneer Jewish Texans Their Impact On Texas & American History For 400 Years 1590-1990”
Naomi Danis on “And for Children My Father Always Embarrasses Me”
Naomi Danis on “Betty Friedan: Fighter for Women' s Rights”