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    jewish mother

    Cover of Jewish Mothers: Strength, Wisdom, Compassion
    Visu­al Arts
    Jew­ish Moth­ers: Strength, Wis­dom, Compassion
    Lloyd Wolf and Paula Wolfson; Anne Roiphe, fwd.
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    Yid­dishe Mamas: The Truth about the Jew­ish Mother
    Marnie Winston-Macauley
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    Mother/​Writer

    Ear­li­er this week, Ramona Ausubel wrote about why she’s a writer and not an actress. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.…
    Ramona Ausubel
    April 18, 2012
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    You Nev­er Call! You Nev­er Write!: A His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Mother
    Joyce Antler
    Cover of A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) By Her Bastard Son
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    A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
    Clancy Sigal
    Essay

    Mem­o­ry, Scent, and My Mother

    Ear­li­er this week, Mol­ly Birn­baum wrote about her first writ­ing teacher and the scent of Passover. She has been blog­ging all week for Jew­ish…
    Mol­ly Birnbaum
    May 13, 2011
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    The Col­or of Water: A Black Man’s Trib­ute to His White Mother
    James McBride
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