Nice Jewish girls : a lesbian anthology /

Essays, poems, recorded conversations, stories, and prose are gathered to provide a consciousness-raising feeling of what it means to be Jewish and lesbian.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Beck, Evelyn Torton
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1989.
Edition:Rev. and updated ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
Table of Contents:
  • Why is this book different from all other books? / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • Still different (1989) / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • from Bashert (poem) / Irena Klepfisz
  • From one generation to another. Daughters and mothers: three generations (essay) / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • On passing: from one generation to another (poem) / Nina Rachel
  • Mother and daughter, Jewish and lesbian: a conversation (1989) / Evelyn Torton Beck and Nina Rachel
  • If I am not for myself, who will be? From perspectives on the Second World War (poem) Irena Klepfisz
  • Fifteen minutes from the Kar Kare Klinic (poem) / Elana Dykewomon
  • Some notes on Jewish lesbian identity (essay) / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
  • Antisemitism in the lesbian/feminist movement (essay) / Irena Klepfisz
  • Jewish Identity: a coat of many colors. Interracial plus (essay) / Joslyn C. Segal
  • How a nice Jewish girl like me could (essay) / Pauline Bart
  • Some of us are Arabic / Rachel Wahba
  • Split at the root (memoir) / Adrienne Rich
  • Living in the In-between (essay) / Chaya Shoshana (L. Lee Knefelkamp
  • A coat of many colors (essay) / Savina Teubal
  • If I am only for myself, what am I? Kaddish (poem) / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
  • Resisting and surviving America (essay); afterthoughts (1988) / Irena Klepfisz
  • Notes of an Immigrant Daughter: Atlanta (poem) / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
  • Repeating history (essay) / Bernice Mennis
  • Lesbians in the international movement of Gay/Lesbian Jews / Aliza Maggid
  • That's funny, you don't look like a Jewish Lesbian. That's funny, you don't look like a Jewish Lesbian (photo essay) / JEB (Joan E. Biren)
  • A morning for memories (story) / Ruth Geller
  • The tree of begats (poem) / Martha Shelley
  • The fourth daughter's four hundred questions (story) / Elana Dykewomon
  • Affair with a married woman (poem) / Martha Shelley
  • Jewish lesbian mother (essay) / Susan J. Wolfe.
  • What may be Tsores to you is Naches to me (poem) / Dovida Ishatova
  • Coffee and cake (story) / Harriet Malinowitz
  • If I forget thee O Jerusalem. If I forget / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • Next year in Jerusalem (essay) / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • Letter from Jerusalem / Shelley Horowitz
  • A lesbian in the promised land (essay) / Marcia Freedman
  • Letters from my aunt / Maida Tilchen with Helen D. Weinstock
  • Yom Hashoah, Yom Yerushalayim: a meditation / Irena Klepfisz
  • East Jerusalem, 1987: Bet Shalom (house of peace) (poem) / Irena Klepfisz
  • Appendix: cast a critical eye. I.B. Singer's misogyny (essay) / Evelyn Torton Beck
  • Blaming the Jews for the birth of patriarchy (essay) / Jusith Plaskow
  • Blaming the Jews for the death of the Goddess (essay) / Annette Daum.