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Winter 1996-1997
In this issue: Being sick and being Jewish: a special section on healing by a DES-daughter, a rabbi with lupus, a poet on crutches. What’s your name? Birth name? Hyphenated name? Married name? Yiddish name? A name you took to change your luck? What we want to be called, and why. Creating today’s Pantheon of Jewish feminist scholars.
Who Are We?
Each of us has a name
- A Name in the Closet by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
- “Shinui Shem” Change Your Name, Change Your Luck
- Each of Us Has a Name poetry by Zelda
- Wave of Emotion by Rabbi Leila Gal Berner
- A Dad's Choice by Seena Candy Sweet
- One Woman, 2 Marriages, 3 Cultures, 4 Names by Karen Alkalay-Gut
- Out of the Flames by Phyllis Pacheco
- The Power of Name by Esther Gerstenfeld Radick
- Feminist Son, Angry Mom by Ann Klaff Lontein
- Making up our Shared Name by Rabbi Zeise Wild Wolf
- The Pronunciation of My Name by Rachel S. Havrelock
- The Wisdom of Change by Sophia Batsheva Rosenberg
- Wacky Macky by Maxine Silverman
- A Bitter Blow by Mara Benjamin
- I Love My Name by Troim Katz-Blacker Handler
- Sylvia Meister, Sylvia Roth, Sylvia Shopira and I, Sylvia Rosner by Sylvia Rothchild
- Jew by Choice, Name by Choice by Kiera Aviya Koester
Is Our Suffering Transformative?
by Rabbi Susan Schnur
A rabbi comes out of the closet as a chronically ill person, and shares what she has culled from a book of healing psalms.
- Broken Tablets/ Scattered Light by Tamara M. Green
- Bathing Pearl fiction by Shelly R. Fredman
- How Did They Get Into Her Womb? by Sarah Blustain
- Sacrifice fiction by Batya Swift Yasgur
Constructing (Not Deconstructing) the Jewish Feminist Pantheon
by Sarah Blustain
Who are the pillars of present-day Jewish feminist scholarship? And what do these women-and the "pioneer scholars" of the 1970s and 1980s say about Jewish women’s studies )and about each other) as we approach the year 2000. A LILITH 20th anniversary review.
The Genesis List
compiled by Natalie Blitt and Heather Tenzer
“It Was No Fun”
by Ruth Gay
It turns out that Woody Allen didn’t invent anhedonia. For Jewish immigrants in America, happiness was just not seen as a legitimate goal in life. Lilith's back page on women’s history—"The Way We Were"—asks what happened when the American ideal of romantic love and matinee idols clashed with the realities of sour tenement lives.
Meredith Tax Tackles the Silence of Women
Finding Power in a Black Doll
In Secret Sisterhood
“She Did it Because She Believed”
Sarah Blustain on "Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook"
Susan Weidman Schneider on "Gender Equality and American Jews"
Amy Greenstein on "Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of the Revolution"
Sarah Blustain on "Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up In America"
Heather Tenzer on "Bitter Scent: The Case Of L'oreal, Nazis, And The Arab Boycott"
Sarah Blustain on "In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin"
Naomi Danis on "Taking Judaism Personally"
Sarah Blustain on "The Family Markowitz"
Sarah Blustain on "Love Invents us"
Natalie Blitt on "Ghost Stories"
Sarah Blustain on "Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women"
Naomi Danis on "Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World"
Naomi Danis on "A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers"
Heather Tetizer on "The Novice Insomniac"