Nice Jewish Girls

Author : Evelyn Torton Beck
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nice Jewish Girls written by Evelyn Torton Beck and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of angry, bitter, proud, and joyful writing--poetry, stories, history, analysis, autobiography--on Jewish lesbian identity. With a new section on mother/daughter relationships, new and updated material on Israel, and new poetry and photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452273978
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nice Jewish Girls written by Grace Paley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “While nearly every Jewish female reader will find herself reflected here, the poignancy of these stories will be felt by readers of all ethnicities.”—Library Journal Chicken soup and Barbra Streisand, lost fathers and first dates, Hebrew school and Queen Esther, seders and seductions. In this insightful, original anthology, forty-five American Jewish writers explore the richness of their shared heritage, from the tragic to the trivial. In memoirs, fiction, and poetry new and favorite writers like Grace Paley, Amy Bloom, Vivian Gornick, and Laura Cunningham brilliantly reveal the challenges of coming of age as a Jewish woman in America today. What have we lost that our mothers and grandmothers had? Do we still feel close ties to family and community? Can we make a decent pot roast? This spirited collection is full of humor and wisdom, memory and affection—and there isn’t a Jewish girl (nice or otherwise) who won’t find herself reflected in these vibrant pages.

Author : Julie Merberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1950587096
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Nice" Jewish Girls written by Julie Merberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty biographies of groundbreaking, outspoken, odds-defying Jewish women serve as inspiration and roadmap for the next generation.

Author : Pamela Nadell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039365124X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today written by Pamela Nadell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.

Author : Miriam Grossman
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873064385
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonder of Becoming You written by Miriam Grossman and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive explanation of the body's changes and how Jewish tradition views related matters, such as modesty.

Author : Nadine Epstein
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0593377192
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women written by Nadine Epstein and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models--selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court justice herself-- provides young people with a roster of inspirational role models, all of whom are Jewish women, who will appeal not only to young people but to people of all ages, and all faiths. The fascinating lives detailed in this collection--more than thirty exemplary female role models--were chosen by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or RBG, as she was lovingly known to her many admirers. Working with her friend, journalist Nadine Epstein, RBG selected these trailblazers, all of whom are women and Jewish, who chose not to settle for the rules and beliefs of their time. They did not accept what the world told them they should be. Like RBG, they dreamed big, worked hard, and forged their own paths to become who they deserved to be. Future generations will benefit from each and every one of the courageous actions and triumphs of the women profiled here. RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women, the passion project of Justice Ginsburg in the last year of her life, will inspire readers to think about who they want to become and to make it happen, just like RBG.

Author : Judith Krantz
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312979652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl written by Judith Krantz and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb sex and stunning success...wealth and world-wide fame...alluring women and adventurous men. They're the stuff of the sizzling, internationally bestselling novels that turned Judith Krantz into a literary mega-star--and the very same stuff of Krantz's own life... In this candid autobiography, Judith Krantz becomes the heroine of her own memorable true story. Here is the virginal young Wellesley student who grew up in a complicated tangle of privilege and family drama. Here, too, is the stylish sophisticate who dined with Lawrence Olivier and Marlene Dietrich. And here is the overnight phenomenon who tantalized millions of readers with uninhibited tales of women who had it all. From Fifth Avenue to Rodeo Drive, from Chanel to Van Cleef and Arpels, from a chateau in France to back lots of Hollywood, this is Judith Krantz's revealing confessional of a nice Jewish girl who parleyed talent and determination into a dazzling life at the top.

Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763679437
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hired Girl written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.

Author : Cynthia G. Franklin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299156036
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Women's Communities written by Cynthia G. Franklin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1980s, a number of popular and influential anthologies organized around themes of shared identity—Nice Jewish Girls, This Bridge Called My Back, Home Girls, and others—have brought together women’s fiction and poetry with journal entries, personal narratives, and transcribed conversations. These groundbreaking multi-genre anthologies, Cynthia G. Franklin demonstrates, have played a crucial role in shaping current literary studies, in defining cultural and political movements, and in building connections between academic and other communities. Exploring intersections and alliances across the often competing categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Writing Women’s Communities contributes to current public debates about multiculturalism, feminism, identity politics, the academy as a site of political activism, and the relationship between literature and politics.

Author : Farideh Goldin
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683890
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wedding Song written by Farideh Goldin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching personal story of family, religion, and community that shows the horror of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism.