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Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Helene Aylon spends her Friday nights in a sea of extended family as the Sabbath candles flicker. She dreams of escape but marries a rabbi and becomes a mother of two. Suddenly her world splits apart when she is widowed at thirty. Aylon finds a home in the burgeoning environmental art scene of the 1970s—creating transgressive works that explore identity, women’s bodies, the environment, disarmament, and the notion of God. Eventually she asks of Judaism what she never dared to ask as a child: Where are the women?

eISBN:9781558617698

ISBN: 9781558617681

And the Bridge is Love

Faye Moskowitz

And the Bridge is Love
is a timeless collection of life stories about growing up in a Jewish family in Detroit during the Depression and becoming a writer in Washington DC.

eISBN: 9781558617711

ISBN: 9781558617704

Hold on to the Sun

Michal Govrin. Edited by Judith Miller.

In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, Michal Govrin–one of Israel’s most important contemporary writers—offers a kaleidoscope of short stories and personal essays. Populated by mysterious and real people, each tale is a search for meaning in a post-Holocaust world.

eISBN: 9781558616745

ISBN: 9781558616738

Shalom India Housing Society

Esther David

In this novel set inside a fictional housing complex, a true-to-life story unfolds of a steadily disappearing sect of Indian Jews who live out their mixed identity with longing, joy, and humor.

eISBN: 9781558616455

ISBN: 9781558615960

If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard

Jennifer Rosner

A memoir of a woman learning her family’s secret history; imagining the lives of her deaf ancestors in the enclaves of Eastern Europe; and, with her husband, making hard decisions for her deaf children.

eISBN: 9781558616912

ISBN: 9781558616622

Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, An Exile’s Journey

Joyce Zonana

In a memoir of traditions lost and found, a flooded city, and the healing power of food, Joyce Zonana (an Egyptian Jew by birth) finds a sense of self among people and places as far from Cairo as Oklahoma and Katrina-stricken New Orleans.

eISBN: 9781558616264

ISBN: 9781558615731

Dearet Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love

Judith Katzir

Best-selling, internationally recognized Israeli novelist Judith Katzir recreates an artist’s coming-of-age during the 1970s as she explores the concealed, erotic relationship between a teenager and her married teacher Michaela.

eISBN: 9781558616370

ISBN: 9781558615755

Arguing with the Storm:
Stories by Yiddish Women Writers

Edited by Rhea Tregebov

From the superstitions and conviviality of the shtetl to the mysteries of the New World; from rebellion in Russia to the Holocaust, these stories show what it meant to be a woman, a Jew, and a writer in turbulent times.

ISBN: 9781558615588