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Essay

The Act of Writ­ing a Poem

“Inte­ri­or mono­logue of the poet: the notes for the poem are the only poem” —from ​“Images for Godard” in The Will to Change (1971) by Adri­enne Rich The act of…
Julie R. Enszer 
November 14, 2013
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The Lega­cy of Robert Kim­mel Smith

by Dina Wein­stein Forty years ago in books and in groups, women were doc­u­ment­ing, prod­ding, and exam­in­ing their world, their sta­tus, and their lot as they entered the…
Dina Wein­stein
November 14, 2013
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Les­bian-Fem­i­nist Midrash: Nice Jew­ish Girls

Les­bian-fem­i­nist poet and schol­ar Julie R. Ensz­er blogs this week for The Pros­en­Peo­ple on the sem­i­nal Jew­ish les­bian voic­es of the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion and the…
Julie R. Enszer 
November 13, 2013
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Eight Nights of Sto­ries: The Yid­dish Masters

Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein Yes, if you’re won­der­ing, my par­ents have been fol­low­ing the entire Eight Nights of Sto­ries blog series. My mom has no mem­o­ry of the night she…
Nat Bern­stein
November 13, 2013
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The Bur­den of Silence

Leonard Rosen​’s most recent­ly pub­lished book is The Tenth Wit­ness, a pre­quel to All Cry Chaos, a much-praised award win­ner in both the lit­er­ary and…
Leonard Rosen
November 13, 2013
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Young Jew­ish Athletes

Ear­li­er this week, Ilana Garon wrote about Jew­ish day school and run­ning. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.My broth­ers…
Ilana Garon
November 13, 2013
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