Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in AmericaThis is about Letty Pogrebin's journey; it is about her alienation from Judaism, her subsequent embrace of feminism, and her struggle to reconcile these two identities. In the process of telling this deeply personal story, Pogrebin touches on every issue that affects Jewish women in today's world. With vigorous and thoughtful honesty, she reveals family secrets, self-doubts, how she celebrates Jewish holidays, and which rituals have had a special meaning to her as a woman. In the secular sphere, she explores the tensions between Jewish and Black women, ; she uncovers the anti-Semitism that occasionally has besmirched the Women's Movement; and she analyzes Israel's treatment of Jewish women, of Palestinians, of South Africa-from a frankly feminist perspective. All of this is related in the context of her life- her metamorphosis from a virtually apolitical publishing executive to one of the most visible leaders of the Women's Movement, her coming out as a Jew in the feminist community and as a feminist in the Jewish world. -- Publisher description. |
Contents
The Eternal Light | 49 |
The High Holy Days | 82 |
My Hanukkah | 100 |
Copyright | |
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