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The smartest woman I know
Shares advice from the author's grandmother on everything from romance to cooking.
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A spiritual life : a Jewish feminist journey
Explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types. A unique memoir that interweaves poetry, narrative, meditation, and social history, A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types. From the experiences of early childhood, to the spiritual awakening of a secular adolescent encountering Jewish tradition, to the alternately funny and searing tales of new-found independence, early married life, young motherhood, and midlife, Feld comments with remarkable honesty and clarity on the many stages of spiritual and artistic exploration and growth. Overarching all these accounts is the picture of how the cycle of the Jewish calendar year comes to provide an ever-renewing source of sustenance for the author's deepening spiritual expression.
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Jewlia Eisenberg and Queer Piyut
This memorial to composer and Charming Hostess band founder Jewlia Eisenberg explores the queer erotics of “Agadelkha,” a musical setting of a piyut by Abraham ibn Ezra and part of Eisenberg's larger “queer piyut,” project.
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The year my mother came back
\"Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen's mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the people weve lost to come back to us when we need them the most\"--Dust jacket flap.
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The Real Mrs. Maisel
This essay argues that Jean Carroll, America’s first Jewish female stand-up comedian, constitutes a key figure in the history of Jewish performance because she embodied a new model of Jewish femininity in comedy, transforming the emerging genre of “stand-up comedy” from one that reinscribed and circulated negative stereotypes of Jewish women to one that revised and humanized these stereotypes. As pioneers of modern stand-up comedy like Henny Youngman marked the genre with misogynistic accounts of Jewish women as backward and unsympathetically demanding, Carroll provided an alternate representation that captured a more assimilated, sophisticated, and sympathetic Jewess. Her performances on mainstream stages were coded, drawing on stereotypes of Jewish women circulated by her Jewish male colleagues, but humanizing them using a new style of “confidant comedy” that leveraged the intimacy of her informal, conversational delivery.
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Devotion : a memoir
In this spiritual detective story, Shapiro explores the varieties of experience she has pursued--from the rituals of her black hat Orthodox Jewish relatives to yoga \"shalas\" and meditation retreats--and the surprisingly joyful quest she undertook to find meaning in a constantly changing world.
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