| From Publishers Weekly Although uneven in literary quality and sometimes naive， this potpourri of short fiction， poetry， essays and interviews is a vigorous， stimulating celebration of a multifaceted Jewish womanhood. Cultures outside the mainstream American experience are illuminated via memories of childhoods in a Jewish Sephardic home in Catholic Argentina and in a segregated Russian-Jewish community in China. Novelist Sarah Schulman offers a walking tour through radical Jewish women's history on the Lower East Side， 1879-1919， and Jerusalemite Chaya Shalom discusses the discrimination she has faced as a Sephardi and as a lesbian in Israel. Savina Teubal reads Genesis as the usurpation of a matriarchate by a patriarchy; and Julie Greenberg， a lesbian rabbinical student， attempts to reconcile Jewish traditions with feminism. Preserved here are a 19th century Moroccan ballad of a young woman who chooses martyrdom rather than joining the Sultan's harem and converting to Islam， and an autobiographical story by an American college student who was hidden in a Polish orphanage during WW II. The editors are both writing instructors at Vermont College. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information， Inc. From Library Journal This moving collection of essays， memoirs， interviews， poetry， fiction， and artwork， an expanded and updated version of materials published in 1986 as a special issue of the journal Sinister Wisdom ， traverses national boundaries to present the diversity of Jewish women's experiences and beliefs. Reflections on the Holocaust， Zionism， feminism， and the recent Palestinian uprising are juxtaposed with writing on relationships， identity， and assimilation; traditional songs and celebrations; and translations from Yiddish， Hebrew， and Ladino. The anthology attests to the existence and fruitfulness of a Jewish women's literary and cultural tradition that garners strength by examining rather than suppressing conflicts. With an excellent bibliography， resource materials， and glossary. Highly recommended.- Deborah Gussman， Rutgers Univ.， New Brunswick， N.J.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information， Inc. See all Editorial Reviews |
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