Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories

Author : Rachel J Siegel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317956990
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories written by Rachel J Siegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000! Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our post-Holocaust, non-Jewish world--the many ways of being Jewish, the acts of loving, of preserving and celebrating Jewish traditions and spirituality, and of transmitting them to their children and families. The firsthand stories in this compelling book raises questions and provides you with insight into a variety of topics, including: The 'Jewish mother’stereotype and its impact on real Jewish mothers ethnic/historical connections between mothers and daughters moving acts of love, courage, and sacrifice in response to illness, war, or conflicting ideologies motherhood as a catalyst for personal evolutions of Jewish identity and values Orthodox to secular expressions of spirituality The impact of the 'Jewish motherhood imperative’ positive experiences of conversion and interfaith families conveying Jewish history and tradition in a Christian world Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories will draw you into an appreciation of the cultural, ethnic, and spiritual aspects of mothering. This remarkable collection explores the different meanings of today's concept of “Jewish mother” and “Jewish family.”

Author : Rachel Ament
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402292600
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Daughter Diaries written by Rachel Ament and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms who impersonate their daughters on JDate. Moms who try to set their daughters up with celebrities. Moms who can't stop taking selfies with their dogs. Moms who make their daughters' beds while their daughters are still sleeping in the other half. This collection of 28 essays is a heartfelt, hilarious tribute to mom and daughterhood, exploring the often complex, colorful and (at times) claustrophobic relationship. The Jewish Daughter Diaries features stories from some of the most compelling Jewish female voices today, who sound off on what it is like to be loved and adored by a modern-day Jewish mom. Mayim Bialik: "My mother met my bewilderment with a sympathetic glance and a modest recounting of my assets as she saw them.... if Barbra Streisand could be so famous and amazing and wonderful with her nose, why should mine be any problem?" lliza Shlesinger: "I knew my mom was special because once I asked her, "If a witch turned me into a bug, what would you do? Without missing a beat, she said, "I'd put you in my pocket to keep you with me always." Also featuring: Lauren Greenberg, Sari Botton, Abby Sher, Kerry Cohen, Meredith Hoffa, Anna Breslaw, Chaya Kurtz, Iris Bahr, Jena Friedman, Rachel Shukert, Leonara Ariella Nonni Epstein, Jenny Jaffe, Lauren Yapalater, Rebecca Drysdale, Emmy Blotnik, Arianna Stern, Almie Rose, Nadine Friedman, Deb Margolin, Gaby Dunn, Wendy Liebman, Mireille Silcoff, Dylan Joffe, and Mara Altman. The stories in this collection will make you laugh, cry, panic-and finally, pick up the phone. For anyone who has ever been overloved, overprotected or overmothered, this collection will feel like home.

Author : Joyce Antler
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195147871
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Never Call! You Never Write! written by Joyce Antler and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating, often humorous history of the Jewish Mother traces the evolution of this popular icon through decades of American culture, detailing both positive and negative aspects through the years while examining such images as the "Yiddishe Mama," "Molly Goldberg," the smothering and shrewish scourge of Portnoy's Complaint, and beyond.

Author : Marjorie Ingall
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0804141428
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mamaleh Knows Best written by Marjorie Ingall and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.

Author : Marnie Winston-Macauley
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740788892
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yiddishe Mamas written by Marnie Winston-Macauley and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." --Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Jon Stewart, Bette Midler, and Natalie Portman have in common with this book? A Jewish mother. Is there such a thing as a Jewish mother? And if so, who is she? For the first time, best-selling Jewish author and humorist Marnie Winston-Macauley examines all aspects of the Jewish mother. Chronicling biblical Jewish mothers to modern-day Yentls, she creates a compendium using celebrity interviews, anecdotes, humor, and scholarly sources to answer these questions with truth and humor. * Contributors to the book range from Dr. Ruth Gruber and Rabbi Bonnie Koppel to Jackie Mason, Amy Borkowsky, John Stossel, Lainie Kazan, and more. * "The definitive source on Jewish mothers." --Eileen Warshaw, Ph.D., executive director of the Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest

Author : Jill Zarin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110153253X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of a Jewish Mother written by Jill Zarin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Real Housewife of New York City reveals the Jewish mother's secrets to life, love and happiness. The Jewish Mother knows what she wants-and what you should want too. Here, readers will learn how to make her methods their own, and give and get love and happiness in great amounts. Jill Zarin, the breakout star of Bravo's hit series The Real Housewives of New York, teams up with her sister, Lisa Wexler, award-winning host of the daily radio program The Lisa Wexler Show, and her mother, the estimable Gloria Kamen, who made a splash on Jill's series last year. With real-life stories from the mother/daughter trio illustrating their wise and witty tips on dating, marriage, money, and more, Secrets of a Jewish Mother is all the advice readers didn't know they needed but will never forget.

Author : Judy Gold
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781401303112
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother written by Judy Gold and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's a little Jewish mother in every mother," as comedienne Judy Gold reveals in her achingly hilarious and poignant book For a Jewish girl who remembers the first book ever read to her as a child was the pop-up version of The Diary of Anne Frank, learning how to be a Jewish mother who wasnt a carbon copy of HER Jewish mother wasnt easy. Here, Emmy Awardwinning comedienne Judy Gold asks, "Are there any Jewish mothers out there like me, or are they all, G-d forbid, like my mother" In 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, she incorporates her own adventures in Jewish motherdom and her memories of growing up Jewish in suburban New Jersey -- communicating with her mother by putting Ann Landers articles on the fridge ("Dear Ann, My mother wont let me walk alone to school and Im 16! Please help." "Dear Ann, The crossing guard drinks. Please help.") -- with the voices of the fifty other Jewish mothers, she and her co-author, Kathleen Moira Ryan, interviewed. They asked homemakers, lawyers, Holocaust survivors twenty-five questions, including: --Who's your favorite Jewish mother (Judy's is Barbra Streisand.)? --How many times a day do you talk to your children or mother (for Judy, it's anywhere from one to the high double digits)? --Are Jewish mothers really more paranoid (or, "Why do I have to write an entire itinerary with names, addresses, and phone numbers every time I leave the house")? And so on. The culmination of these extraordinary stories confirms that there is ultimately something strong, courageous, and loving in every Jewish mother -- a hopeful -- and very funny -- message to mothers and their children everywhere.

Author : Dan Greenburg
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780451033963
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Jewish Mother written by Dan Greenburg and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1967 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811827895
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Mothers written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebration of Jewish women and motherhood, 80 gorgeous duotone portraits are paired with intimate profiles that evoke the lives of 50 Jewish mothers.

Author : Sharon Strassfeld
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780684847252
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything I Know written by Sharon Strassfeld and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that began as a mother's heartfelt letter to her college-bound son and daughter, the author of "The Jewish Family Book" offers a volume filled with hard-won wisdom and life lessons.